This bibliography on Francis Bacon, Bacon-Shakespeare, and related topics (at least in my mind) will be a work-in-progress, select, arbitrary, and eclectic.. For comprehensive bibliographies on Bacon-Shakespeare, please see the bibliographies at SirBacon.org.
Andrews, Mark Edwin. Law versus Equity in The Merchant of Venice: A Legalization of Act IV, Scene 1 .Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 1965.
Beal, Peter, “Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, “Viscount St. Alban,” Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450–1700,” https://celm.folger.edu/authors/baconfrancis.html
Clarke, Barry R. Francis Bacon’s Contribution to Shakespeare: A New Attribution Method. New York: Routledge, 2019.
Cockburn, N. B. The Bacon Shakespeare Question: The Baconian Theory Made Sane. The Francis Bacon Edition. 1998; reprinted by The Francis Bacon Society, 2024.
Condorelli, Orazio and Rafael Domingo, eds. Law and the Christian Tradition: The Legacy of the Great Jurists. London: Routledge, 2020. “This volume explores a millennium-long story of law and religion in Italy through a series of twenty-six biographical chapters written by distinguished legal scholars and historians from Italy and around the world.”
Coquillette, Daniel R. Francis Bacon. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992 (Bacon’s jurisprudence).
Crowell, Samuel [pseud.]. William Forty-Hands: Disintegration and Reinvention of the Shakespeare Canon. Charleston WV: Nine-Banded Books, 2016.
Dawkins, Peter. On Second-Seeing Shakespeare. e-book, 2020. Peter Dawkins, https://www.peterdawkins.com/publications/. Reviewed by me here.
—-The Shakespeare Enigma, foreword by Mark Rylance. London: Polair Publishing, 2004.
Heinz, Eric. “Power Politics and the Rule of Law: Shakespeare’s First Historical Tetralogy and Law’s ‘Foundations,'” Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 29, no. 1: 139–168. March, 2009. DOI 10.1093/ojls/gqp003
Jokinen, Anniina, “Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626),” copyright 1996–2010, http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/bacon/
—“Sir Francis Bacon: Additional Sources,” last updated October 19, 2006, http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/bacon/baconadd.htm
Learner, Mary and Morgan Souza. “The Editorial Mythopoeia of Sir Francis Bacon: William Rawley, New Atlantis, and Restoring Unperfection.” In Literary Archaeologies: Print to Digital, with introduction, “About This Collection” by Whitney Trettien. Creative Commons. May 16, 2016. http://sirbacon.org/The%20Editorial%20Mythopedia%20of%20Sir%20Francis%20Bacon.html
Matthews, Nieves. Francis Bacon: The History of a Character Assassination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
McClinton, Brian. The Shakespeare Conspiracies: Untangling a 400-Year Web of Myth and Deceit, 2d ed. Belfast: Shanway Press, 2008. Reviewed by me here.
Murtha, Ryan. Editor, Innocent Gentillet, Anti-Machiavel: A Discourse Upon the Means of Well Governing, translated by Simon Patericke (1602). Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2018 (anon., 1576). Exploring parallel passages in works by Bacon, Shakespeare, and other writers of seventeenth century literature for which authorship remains uncertain; see my review in Modern Language Review 115, no 3 (July, 2020])
—-The Precious Gem of Hidden Literature. Eugene, OR: Resource Publications. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2022.
—-Francis Bacon and the Heroic Archetype: The Greatest Story Never Told. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2026.
Peltonen, Markku, “Francis Bacon,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, first published Dec. 2, 2025, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/francis-bacon/
Phillips, O. Hood. Shakespeare and the Lawyers. New York: Routledge, 2013. First published London: Methuen, 1972. Survey of literature. In his preface, Phillips states he eliminated three chapters on authorship due to space (viii), but hoped to write a later book including them.
—–“Shakespeare and Gray’s Inn,” Graya, no. 72/107 Michaelmas. 1970.
Raffield, Paul. The Art of Law in Shakespeare. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2017.
—, and Gary Watt, eds. Shakespeare and the Law. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2008.
Regnier, Tom (“Oxfordian”). (1) interview. “Podcasts,” episode 2, ‘The Law in Hamlet.’ The Shakespeare Underground. accessed 9/28/20. https://www.theshakespeareunderground.com/the-law-in-hamlet/; (2) Obituary, “Tom Regnier: A Life of Liberty, Love, and Shakespeare,” Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, April 25, 2020, https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/regnier-life/; (3) Publications page, “Tom Regnier: Attorney, Appeals” (including works on Shakespeare and law), https://sites.google.com/site/thomasregnier/.
Sarnicke, Melissa. “Did He or Didn’t He: Did Shakespeare Study Law? That is the Question.” Juris Magazine, October 21, 2015. https://sites.law.duq.edu/juris/2015/10/21/did-he-or-didnt-he-did-shakespeare-study-law-that-is-the-question/
“Shakespeare and the Law Archives,” Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/category/shakespeare-and-law/.
Wheeler, Harvey (1919-2004), Essays: Francis Bacon’s Case of the Post-Nati:(1608), in Foundations of Anglo-American Constitutionalism; An Application of Critical Constitutional Theory. Ward, 1998; author, 1957;1960. http://www.sirbacon.org/wheelerpostnati.html (For list of published writings of Harvey Wheeler, see https://sirbacon.org/wheelerbooks.html.)
—The Semiosis of Francis Bacon’s Scientific Empiricism. 1999. http://www.sirbacon.org/wheelersemiosis.html
—-Francis Bacon’s “Verulamium”: the Common Law Template of The Modern in English Science and Culture. 1999. http://www.sirbahttps://sirbacon.org/wheelerv.html
—-Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis: A Foretaste of The Sciential Society. http://www.sirbacon.org/wnewatlanis.htm
—-Bacon and Dr. Folkman’s Neo-Hermeneutics.2001. http://www.sirbacon.org/wheelerfolkman.htm
—-Commentary and Introduction on Bacon’s Valerius Terminus Of the Interpretation of Nature with the Annotations of Hermes Stella. 2002. http://www.sirbacon.org/wheelervt.htm
—-The Semiotics of “Constitution” in England and America. 2002. (“Francis Bacon’s brief in Calvin’s Case was the “meme,” the institutional genome – the mimeme replicator, of constitutionalism for both England and America.”–Wheeler). http://www.sirbacon.org/wheelerconstitution.htm
Zurcher, Andrew, editor. Shakespeare and Law. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2010.
Select Biographies
Amboise, Pierre Amboise, “Discourse on the Life of M. Francis Bacon, Chancellor of England,” Histoire Naturelle de Mre. Francois Bacon, Baron de Verulan (sic), Vicomte de Sainct Alban et Chancelier d’Angleterre (Paris, 1631), reprinted at https://sirbacon.org/amboiselife.htm (text provided by Mather Walker, with link to text of Granville C. Cunningham, ch 2, Bacon’s Secret Disclosed in Contemporary Books. London: Gay & Hancock, 1911.
Dawkins, Peter “Baconian History,” “Life of Francis Bacon,” and other essays (under “Resources”), Francis Bacon Research Trust (“FBRT”), https://www.fbrt.org.uk/
Dodd, Alfred, Francis Bacon’s Personal Life-Story, 2 vols. London: Rider, 1986.
Peltonen, Markuu, “Francis Bacon,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Dec. 2, 2025, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/francis-bacon/
Rawley, William (Bacon’s chaplain), Life of Bacon (Spedding 1:1-20), reprinted at Francis Bacon Research Trust, https://www.fbrt.org.uk › wp-content › uploads › 2020 › 06 › Rawleys_Life_of_Francis_Bacon.pdf.
Sirbacon.org pages I cited in my book, Francis Bacon’s Hidden Hand:
“Bacon versus Shakespeare: A Judicial Decision that Francis Bacon was the True Author of the Shakespeare Plays,” (from the New York Times, 1916), https://sirbacon.org/links/nytimes.html
“Bacon’s Royal Parentage” (references prepared by Francis Carr). https://sirbacon.org/parentage.htm
“Baptismal Registration of Francis Bacon from St. Martin-in-the-Fields.” https://sirbacon.orgbaptismalregistration.htm
“The Bibliographies.” https://sirbacon.org/francis-bacon-the-bibliographies/
Biddulf, L., “Lord Bacon and the Theatre.” From Baconiana no. 108, July. https://sirbacon.org/links/lord_bacon_&_the_theatre.htm
“Binder’s Waste Discovery of a Manuscript Similar to Shakespeare,” Sotheby’s, July 21, 1992. https://sirbacon.org/graphics/sothebys.jpg
Bormann, Edwin, appendix to ch. 1, “Did Mr. James Spedding Really Know Everything about Francis Bacon?” from Francis Bacon’s Crytpic Rhymes and the Truth They Reveal (1906), pp. 217-226 (“Bormann Spedding”). https://sirbacon.org/bormanonspedding.htm
Bridgewater, Howard (Barrister). “Evidence Connecting Sir Francis Bacon with Shakespeare.” The Bacon Society, London. https://sirbacon.org/ResearchMaterial/evidence.htm
Carr, Francis, “The Writer’s Finger Prints.” https://sirbacon.org/links/carrlegalquixote.html
Cockburn, N.B. [Nigel], table of contents, The Bacon Shakespeare Question, The Baconian Theory Made Sane (1998, reprinted 2024, The Francis Bacon Society Edition). https://sirbacon.org/cockburn.htm. Reviewed by Mather Walker, https://sirbacon.org/mcockburnreview.htm and by C Waldman, https://sirbacon.org/downloads/Cockburn%20review%20sirbacon%205-3-23.pdf]
Cooper, D. W. and Gerald, Lawrence. “A Bond for all the Ages: Sir Francis Bacon and John Dee: The Original 007.” https://sirbacon.org/links/dblohseven.html
“Directory of Sir Thomas More, Document Unravelled,” by Edwin J. Des Moineaux. https://sirbacon.org/stmcontents.htm
Dodd, Alfred, “Francis Bacon and his Nemesis Edward Coke.” https://sirbacon.org/cokeandbacon.htm; — “The Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret,” from The Marriage of Elizabeth Tudor, pp. 38-42. https://sirbacon.org/doddsublimeprince.htm
Gentry, R. J. W., “Francis Bacon and the Stage” (from Baconiana). https://sirbacon.org/links/bacon&_the_stage.htm
Johnson, Edward D., a chapter from “Francis Bacon’s Promus,” The Shaksper Illusion. https://sirbacon.org/links/notebook.html
Lawrence, Sir Edward Durning, “Francis Bacon and the English Language.” https://sirbacon.org/links/BaconEnglishLanguage.htm
Leith, Alicia Amy, “Bacon on the Stage.” From Baconiana, July 1909. pp. 150 – 162. https://sirbacon.org/leithbaconstage.htm
“Manes Verulamiani (Shades of Verulam),” transcribed by Willard Parker (1927). pdf. https://sirbacon.org/Parker/Parker_ManesVerulamiani.pdf (“Showing contemporary opinion of Francis Bacon as Author, Statesman, Upright Judge, Philosopher and POET”)
Pares, Martin, “Parallelisms and the Promus,” https://sirbacon.org/mp.html. From Baconiana, August 1963
“Maureen Ward Gandy,” https://sirbacon.org/links/gandy.htm [see also Maureen Ward-Gandy, report, “Elizabethan Era Writing Comparison for Identication of Common Authorship,” 1992, reviewed for Lawrence Gerald, 1994, with professional credentials update, pdf, https://sirbacon.org/elizabeth-era-writing-comparison-for-identification-of-common-authorship/ (first published in Francis Bacon’s Hidden Hand (New York: Algora Publishing, 2018)
“The Northumberland Manuscript, Bacon and Shakespeare Manuscripts in one Portfolio!” https://sirbacon.org/links/northumberland.html
“Northumberland Manuscript Parts I and II,” Collotype and Fascimile of an Elizabethan Manuscript, Preserved at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, transcribed and edited with notes and introduction by Frank L. Burgoyne. librarian of the Lambeth Public Libraries. London: Longmans, Green, 1904. pdfs. https://sirbacon.org/ResearchMaterial/nm-contents.htm
Patton, Kenneth R. Setting the Record Straight, bk 1, The Vindication of William Stone Booth. https://sirbacon.org/pattonstrs.htm; Purchase, Heather, “Writing’s on the Wall for Shakespeare” (London Evening Standard, July 30, 1991). https://sirbacon.org/links/handwriting1.html
Schoch, Juan, “The Private Manuscript Library of Francis Bacon” (“cokeandbacon”). https://sirbacon.org/Tottel.htm
Von Kunow, Amelie Deventer, Francis Bacon, the Last of the Tudors, transl. Willard Parker, President, Bacon Society of America (1924). Electronically typed and edited by Juan Schoch. https://sirbacon.org/vonkunow.html
Wheeler, Harvey, “Francis Bacon’s Case of the Post-Nati (1608).” https://www.sirbacon.org/wheelerpostnati.html