The Baconian theory gained great popularity and attention in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, although since the mid-twentieth century the primacy of his candidacy as author of the Shakespeare canon has been supplanted by that of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
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In Rudyard Kipling's 1926 short story " The Propagation of Knowledge " ( later collected in " Debits and Credits " and " The Complete Stalky & Co . " ), some schoolboys discover the Baconian theory and profess to be adherents, infuriating their English master.
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"Even if you don't agree with the final conclusion, you're getting a picture of the society in which and for which Shakespeare wrote, rose and rose, and that's the benefit for me, " said Rylance, who subscribes to the Baconian theory . " But I'm not partial in proving one author or another.
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If more references from outside sources were forthcoming, including perhaps some supporting the idea behind the instrument, things might look rosier for the article . ( Personally, I think the theorising behind the development of this instrument is a bit like the Baconian theories of Shakespeare, but rather like the idea of the instrument.
