The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded

The author argues that the plays usually attributed to Shakspere conceal a coherent philosophical system linked to Baconian and other Elizabethan thought, supporting this claim with rhetorical, historical, and textual analysis. She maps period methods of tradition and deliberate rhetorical concealment, examines Montaigne's private arts and a Baconian method of progression, and formulates a science of morality and policy. Subsequent chapters apply this interpretive framework to major plays, offering close readings that foreground themes of governance, civic duty, moral cultivation, and proposals for political reform conveyed through pedagogic devices and veiled authorship.