Adult Non-fiction Books
Francis Bacon’s Hidden Hand in Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’: A Study of Law, Rhetoric, and Authorship (FBHH). New York: Algora Publishing, 2018.
- Published for the first time in FBHH (in appendix 4) is leading British forensic expert, the late Maureen Ward Gandy,’s report, “Elizabethan Era Writing Comparison for Identification of ‘Common Authorship.'” “Originally examined July 24, 1992 [for Francis Carr]; Reviewed for Mr. Lawrence Gerald July 2, 1994” (pp. 249-274, 249). After analyzing a good number of Elizabethan handwriting samples, Ward-Gandy concluded there was a “high probability” that a play fragment “analogous” to the “Gad’s Hill” scene in Shakespeare’s play, The First Part of Henry the Fourth–which was found in binder’s waste in a 1586 copy of Homer’s Odyssey in 1588–was written in Francis Bacon’s own handwriting! In other words: the handwriting in the Bacon sample (a letter known to be in his handwriting) matches the handwriting used in the play fragment. This is further discussed in FBHH, 236-246 which includes a printed copy of “Hand D” from the Play of Sir Thomas More with transcription, for comparison (244-246).
- For the preface and ch 1 of FBHH, see SirBacon.org, May 1, 2021, http://sirbacon.org/francis-bacons-hidden-hand.html.
- Maureen Ward-Gandy’s report may also be viewed, in high-resolution pdf, at the “What’s New” page of SirBacon.org, Oct. 11, 2022, https://sirbacon.org/whats-new-on-sirbacon-org/.
- For “Shakespeare Play Fragment Found–Said to be in Francis Bacon’s Own Handwriting,” as revised Sept. 25, 2020, see my blogpost, https://christinagwaldman.com/2020/05/14/fragment-of-i-henry-iv-found-in-binders-waste/.
Bibliographies–in Progress
These bibliographies were getting too long to be website pages, so I have made them into pdfs. I will try to add to them periodically.
Click to access Biblio-Bacon-Shakespeare-Context-3-in-progress-by-Christina-G-Waldman-12-7-24.pdf
Book Foreword
Foreword to N. B. Cockburn, The Bacon Shakespeare Question: The Baconian Theory Made Sane (London: The Francis Bacon Society Edition, 2024; repr., 1998).
Essays/Articles
–for SirBacon.org
“Challenging the Lie in a Free Society: Even in Shakespeare Authorship Studies?” SirBacon.org, Nov. 14, 2023. PDF.
“What Francis Bacon Means to Me.” SirBacon.org, Oct. 14, 2022, https://sirbacon.org/christina-waldman/ (for SirBacon.org’s 25th anniversary).
“The Oxfraudian ‘Prima Facie Case for Shakespeare’–Hoist With Its Own Petard?” SirBacon.org, Oct. 13, 2022, https://sirbacon.org/christina-waldman/. First published at https://christinagwaldman.com/blog/ (slightly revised, Oct. 20, 2022).
“Reports of the Death of the Case for Francis Bacon’s Authorship of Shakespeare Have Been Greatly Exaggerated.” SirBacon.org, posted August 3, 2022. https://sirbacon.org/christina-waldman/.
“Francis Bacon, Shakespeare, and Tortured Secrets: Violence, Violins, and–One Day–Vindication?” SirBacon.org, May 21, 2021 (revised from May 2, 2021), http://sirbacon.org/waldman/Waldman Violence Violins Vindication final 5-21-21.pdf.
“If Bacon is Shakespeare, What Questions Does that Answer?” SirBacon.org, November 27, 2020 (revised from March 8, 2019). http://www.sirbacon.org/If%20Bacon%20is%20Shakespeare%20revised%20final%2011-27-2020%20fr%203-8-19.pdf.
“Bacon’s Maiden Speech to Parliament and His Royal Birth.” SirBacon.org. June 15, 2020. http://sirbacon.org/archives/Bacons%20Maiden%20Speech%20to%20Parliament%20&%20His%20Royal%20Birth%20June%2015%202020-1.pdf.
–for Baconiana
“Francis Bacon/Bellario: Incorporated by Reference.” Baconiana, the Journal of the Francis Bacon Society, vol. 1, no. 7 (July, 2019). The Francis Bacon Society, https://francisbaconsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Francis-Bacon-Bellario-Incorporated-by-Reference.pdf.
Book Reviews and Comments
—Modern Language Review
Waldman, Christina G., review of Innocent Gentillet, Simon Patericke, Ryan Murtha, Anti-Machiavel: A Discourse upon the Means of Well Governing, in Modern Language Review, 115.3 (2020), pp. 682–84, doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.115.3.0682. Project Muse, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/822706.
—SirBacon.org
“Review of Maria Jose Falcon y Tella, The Law in Cervantes and Shakespeare. Translated by Diedre B. Jerry of El Derecho en Cervantes y Shakespeare (Marcial Pons, 2021). Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2021.” First posted to SirBacon.org June 11, 2024, revised Nov. 4, 2024 (pdf). Published also in Baconiana, vol 2, no 1, Nov. 8, 2024 (pdf).
“Why Did Elizabeth Winkler Not Interview Any Baconians?” SirBacon.org. July 9, 2023. First posted at my blog, ChristinaGWaldman.com, July 5, 2023, https://christinagwaldman.com/2023/07/05/why-did-elizabeth-winkler-not-interview-any-baconians/
“Review of N. B. Cockburn, The Bacon Shakespeare Question: The Baconian Theory Made Sane (1998): A Classic Worth Reprinting.” May 15, 2023. https://sirbacon.org/review-of-n-b-cockburn-the-bacon-shakespeare-question-the-baconian-theory-made-sane-1998-a-classic-worth-reprinting/
“A Dedicated Sleuth Finds Picture-Puzzles Long Buried.” Review of Bacon Shakespeare Conundrum: Direct Evidence of Francis Bacon’s Shakespeare Authorship” by Russell Storrs Hall (published posthumously by his daughter, 2012).” SirBacon.org, Sept. 29, 2021, http://sirbacon.org/waldman/Review Russell Storrs Hall by CGW 9-29-2021.pdf.
“Review of The Martyrdom of Francis Bacon by Alfred Dodd. London: Rider, 1946.” SirBacon.org, August 24, 2021, http://www.sirbacon.org/Review_The%20Martyrdom%20of%20Francis%20Bacon%20by%20Alfred%20Dodd_Christina%20G%20Waldman%208-24-21.pdf.
“Points of note. Comments on Francis Bacon’s Cryptic Rhymes and the Truth They Reveal, by Edward Bormann.” Translated by Harry Brett. London: Siegle, Hill, 1906. SirBacon.org. October 22, 2020. http://www.sirbacon.org/Edwin-Bormann-Francis-Bacons-Cryptic-Rymes-CGW-for-SirBacon10-22-2020.pdf.
“Brief Review. Basil Brown [Mrs. Isabel Kittson Brown], Law Sports at Gray’s Inn (1594) (1921 [1913]) ….” SirBacon.org, Sept. 29, 2020, https://sirbacon.org/christina-waldman/.. [Also may be of interest: Basil Brown, Supposed Caricature of the Droeshout Portrait of Shakespeare (1911), https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t1rf6ng94&view=1up&seq=5)].
“Review of Second-Seeing Shakespeare: “Stay Passenger, why goest thou by so fast? by Peter Dawkins.” Francis Bacon Research Trust, e-book, April 6, 2020. SirBacon.org, April 24, 2020. https://sirbacon.org/Review%20of%20Peter%20Dawkins%20Second-Seeing%20Shakespeare%20by%20CGW%204-24-20.pdf.
—Amazon
“A Lawyer Had More to Say on Shakespeare and the Law.” Review of Daniel J. Kornstein, Something Else: More Shakespeare and the Law (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2012). Amazon, June 24, 2024.
“A Sweet, Sensitively-Told Story.” Review of Andrea Cox Christen, Willomere (Bozeman, MT: Chicken Scratch Books, 2023). Amazon. Sept. 5, 2023. A “new traditional” children’s middle-grade fantasy.
“A Book for Leaders, by a Leader.” Review of Shawn J. Ginwright, The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves (Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2022). Amazon. August 31, 2023.
“Short Shrift of the Case for Bacon?” Review of Elizabeth Winkler, Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature. Amazon. July 9, 2023; revised Sept. 5, 2023. (separate review at Goodreads, July 17, 2023).
“An Author’s Literary Quest.” Review of Simon M. Miles, The Map and the Manuscript: Journeys in the Mysteries of the Two Rennes. Mossley: Greater Manchester, UK: Ignotum Press, 2022. Amazon.co.uk, Nov. 2, 2022, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Map-Manuscript-Simon-M-Miles-ebook/dp/B0B6D4TTW1.
“A Bittersweet Tale Well-Told.” Review of Bittersweet: The Story of the Heath Candy Company, by Richard J. Heath (with Ray Elliott). Urbana, IL: Tales Press, 2003. Amazon. October 7, 2021, https://www.amazon.com/BittersweetThe-Story-Heath-Candy-Co/dp/0964142317.
“Who Really Wrote Anti-Machiavel?” Review of Innocent Gentillet [attributed], Anti-Machiavel: A Discourse Upon the Means of Well Governing [London, 1602; first pub. Geneva, 1576]. Edited by Ryan Murtha, translated by Simon Paterick. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2018. Amazon. Sept. 26, 2021 (revised from Oct. 28, 2019), https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Machiavel-Innocent-Gentillet/dp/1532659733).
“Alvin Decker’s Stories Bring Illinois Depression-Era Farm History Back to Life.” Review of Born in the Illinois Cornfields by Alvin Decker. Urbana, IL: Tales Press, 2000. Amazon. June 22, 2021, https://www.amazon.com/Born-Illinois-Cornfields-Alvin-Decker/dp/0964142333.
“An Overlooked Gem on Bacon-Shakespeare Authorship,” Review of The Shakespeare Conspiracies: A 400-Year Web of Myth and Deceit, 2d ed., by Brian McClinton. Belfast: Shanway Press, 2008. Amazon. January 5, 2021, https://www.amazon.com/dp/0954390679/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=).
“What Did Francis Bacon Say?” Review of Shakespeare’s Legal Ecologies: Law and Distributed Selfhood (Rethinking the Early Modern), by Kevin Curran. Evanston: Northwestern University, 2017. Amazon. November 13, 2020, https://www.amazon.com/Shakespeares-Legal-Ecologies-Distributed-Rethinking/dp/0810135167.
“What Does the Evidence Show?” Review of Francis Bacon’s Contribution to Shakespeare: A New Attribution Method, by Barry R. Clarke. New York: Routledge, 2019. Amazon. October 29, 2019. https://www.amazon.com/Francis-Bacons-Contribution-Shakespeare-Attribution/dp/0367137828.
“Revisiting a Solid Work of Scholarship From the Past.” Review of Mark Edwin Andrews, Law versus Equity in The Merchant of Venice: A Legalization of Act IV, Scene 1. Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 1965. Amazon. Jan. 24, 2019, https://www.amazon.com/Law-versus-equity-merchant-Venice/product-reviews/B0007DFE7O.
For Young and Young-at-Heart Readers
Novel, The Voice of the Wooden Dragon, illustrated by Lane Waldman (Buffalo: NFB Publishing, 2024). In the land of Deweydaire–which is ruled by dragons–well-meaning dragon princess Meredith, intrepid human boy Peter, and underrated court-jester Felix struggle to overcome that bully prince Rupert and the power of an illegal spell, after her attempt to stop the fighting between the Red and White Dragons–on behalf of exploited human farmers–goes terribly wrong.
Short story, “Lewis the Giraffe,” with original cover art by Lane Waldman, East of the Web, August 22, 2024 Story of the Day. It concerns finding a way to be heard and homesickness. https://www.eastoftheweb.com/node/7339
Short story, “The King of Maragor,” an original retelling of a Jataka tale, Skipping Stones: A Multicultural Literary Magazine. Sept. 5, 2023. https://www.skippingstones.org/wp/. A story with a simple, timeless insight into dealing with fear. It was praised by the Agni Yoga Society.
Short story, “Something to Look Forward To,” Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things. October 27, 2021, https://read.emberjournal.org/. It concerns dealing with disappointment and loss.
Poem, “Bard of the Yard,” Westward Quarterly: The Magazine of Family Reading. Summer, 2021. Page 10.
Short story, “Slippers for Molly,” with “Pink Bunny Slippers,” a song written and performed by Eliza Waldman.'” At this website, under “Children’s Corner.” Revised 9-23-24. This was a collaborative pandemic project between Eliza and me. https://christinagwaldman.com/childrens-stories-slippers-for-mollys/
Poem, “Hand Me Downs.” Illustrations by Shannon Comins. First published in Hopscotch for Girls, June/July, 1999. Reprinted with permissions, “Children’s Corner,” this website. June 7, 2019, https://christinagwaldman.com/childrens-corner/.
Profile, “Iris Foils Them All” (profile of Iris Zimmerman, of Rochester, New York who, at age 14, became the first United States fencer ever to win a world championship). Guideposts for Kids, Sept./Oct., 1996.
Comments on Quora
Response, May 11, 2023, to Brian Overland, “What are some reasons why The Merchant of Venice is considered one of Shakespeare’s best plays?” Quora. Nov. 27, 2022.
Responses to: “Is Francis Bacon William Shakespeare?” (updated June 18, 2024) and “What is your opinion of Elizabeth Winkler’s theory that Shakespeare was a woman?” (updated June 19, 2024).
This page last updated Dec. 4, 2024.