Baconian theory

American  

noun

1. the theory attributing the authorship of Shakespeare's plays to Francis Bacon.

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Etymology

Origin of Baconian theory

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

Summarized were all the scholarly comments on every disputed passage, and the Baconian theory was exhaustively surveyed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once, I was told, Professor Kittredge advised the members of his English class at Radcliffe not to read any books on the Baconian theory.

From Time Magazine Archive

This Celtic divine was twenty-five, Miss Bacon was thirty-five; there arose a misunderstanding; but Miss Bacon had developed her Baconian theory before she knew Mr. MacWhorter.

From The Valet's tragedy, and other studies by Lang, Andrew

The Baconian theory has found its widest acceptance in America. 

From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir

His best-known aide was Ignatius Donnelly, of Minnesota, a devotee of the Baconian theory and of the "Lost Atlantis," who was now devoting his active mind to the support of free silver.

From The New Nation by Dodd, William E.