User:Robertson-Glasgow

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My interests are as many and varied as they are few and uniform, of especial concern being cricket, Ancient and Classical Greece, philosophy, Francis Bacon, epic poetry, wine (to drink, not edit), Willy Shakes and sculpture. Feel free to badger me about any.

1 To do
2 To hope to do some day
3 To relish having done
4 My Source Material
- 4.1 Books
- 4.2 Magazines

[edit] To do

The Odyssey.
Herodotus.
Thucydides.
Greco-Persian Wars.
The Wasps.
Suresh Menon (writer).
Jim Bridges, Somerset cricketer.
Mervyn Hill, Somerset wicketkeeper.
Battle of Salamis.
Martin Williamson, managing editor of Cricinfo.
Joubert Strydom, the South African national cricket outfit's convenor of selectors.
Oddysean Themes.
Nadeem Akram, a senior PCB official.
Xerxes I of Persia.
Joseph Hall's Virgidemarium.
Themistocles.
Add to the Baconian theory and Shakespeare authorship question articles the many topics of interest surrounding the First Folio — see Caldecott, p. 16 —; Shakespeare and Bacon's commonalty of thought, philosophy, errors and style — see Caldecott, pp. 17-18, and the Nicholl quote and Edwin Abbott Abbott citation on the same pages —; Caldecott's fluid description of Shakespeare's status (pp. 18-19); Mr Ward's condemnation of Shakespeare, Drayton and Jonson's boozing; posthumous inscriptions (p. 19, and see note on p. 20); uncertainty about whether son of John Shakespeare was our William (p. 20); more formal spelling of name on plays (p. 20); no record of his marriage at seventeen; see http://books.google.co.za/books?q=%22uncertain%20traditions%20of%20his%20having%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wp, on Shakespeare's ostracism from Stratford-on-Avon by Thomas Lucy; nothing heard of him thereafter until his pair of Southampton-dedicated poems (p. 21); emergence of "enlarged" plays, shareholder, property owner, fraudulent coat-of-arms grant, omissions from folio, never claimed to be the author of aught or naught (pp. 21-22); Bacon born three years after Shakespeare, surviving him by ten (p. 22); son of Sir Nicholas Bacon (Lord Treasurer) and Lady Anne Bacon (daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, tutor to Edward VI), studied at Cambridge under Archbishop Whitgrift, the Queen's commendation, "hopeful, sensitive, bashful" (http://books.google.co.za/books?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=xJu&q=%22hopeful%2C%20sensitive%2C%20bashful%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wp), went abroad with the suite of Sir Amias Paulet, dad's death in 1579, to Gray's Inn, called to the Bar, her elder brother Anthony travelling and studying abroad, diligent correspondence (pp. 22-23); Anthony's ostensible role in "The Merchant of Venice", "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", "Romeo and Juliet", et cetera (p. 23); Francis inauspicious during Elizabeth's reign, Malone's belief in the drafting of "The Taming of the Shrew", "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" and "Love's Labour's Lost" (p. 23); role in "The Tragedy of Arthur" (p. 23); "Bacon," says Caldecott, "lived a life of strenuous and alert intellectual activity[.]" (p. 23); "Advancement and Learning" to James I, Shelley and Caldecott's praise of the same volume, reference in Murray's Dictionary, parliament service, oratory at St. Steven's, Attorney-General, Privy Councillor, Lord Keeper, Lord Chancellor, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Alban's, our preference for "Lord Bacon", Caldecott on his splendour and magnanimity, Lord Coke's role in his fall, Spedding and Caldecott's praise of his philosophical endeavour (pp. 23-25); Caldecott's poetic justification of the justifiability of pursuing the Baconian theory (p. 25); Caldecott's thoughts on Bacon's reasons for concealment, Bacon's mother's objection, Bacon's suggestive letters to Tobie Matthew (pp. 26-27); Ignatius L. Donnelly's pursuit of Bacon's cipher, supplemented by quoting the second sentence of p. 27, Holmes quote, Appleton Morgan's thoughts on Bacon's reasons for concealment, Caldecott's own theory (pp. 27-30); White quote, Caldecott on ameliorating sempiternity of plays (pp. 31-32).
Expound William Hepworth Thompson's work on Francis Bacon and his book Renascence Drama, or, History made Visible.
William Ernest Stonach, author of Was Bacon a Poet and librarian of the Public Library of Edinburgh.
Arthur Goldman, cricket writer.
John Mehaffey, a sports reporter for Thomson Reuters.
Karori Park.
Track down Professor Nichol's Life of [[Francis Bacon|Bacon.
John Marston's The Metamorphosis of Pygmalion's Image And Certaine Satyres.
Aristides.
Giambattista Marino's "Adone".
Plunkett Shield.
Gordon White, in whose article no mention is made of the googly.
The anonymous play "The Tragedy of Arthur".
Hall-Marston satires.
Alick Mackenzie, recipient of the first Australian googly, and Gar Waddy.
Bertram Theobald (MA), author of Enter Francis Bacon: The Case for Bacon as the True "Shakespeare" (Cecil Palmer, 1932).
W.F.C. Wigston, author of Bacon, Shakespeare and the Rosicrucians (1890).
Apollo.
John Bennion Booth, author of Old Pink 'un Days (Dodd, Mead, 1925).
The Hall-Marston satires.
The Manningham family, whose John recorded the earliest-known performance of Twelfth Night. The Hearne family deserves similar attention.
The John Bruce (?) who, in 1867, almost happened upon the manuscripts of Richard II and Richard III amongst Baconian papers in Northumberland.
Bill Wyman, Baconian scholar.
David Sygall, the writer with whom Mike Hussey collaborated on his autobiography.
Norman Arendse.
Euripides the Younger.
S Rajesh.
A Conference of Pleasure, composed for some festive occasion about the year 1592, as discovered by the elsewhere-on-this-page-mentioned John Bruce.
John Thicknesse.
Mary Whitlock Blundell.
New York Shakespeare Society.
Hans Christian Günther.
Dudley Carlton, chronicler of Elizabethan gossip and affairs.
Merope wife of Polybus.
Lopez de Vega.
Appleton Morgan, author of The Shakespearean Myth (1888).
Henry Stratford Caldecott, a South African artist and lecturer who expounded the Baconian Theory in Johannesburg in December 1895, in aid of the Public Library Funds. A transcript of his lecture, entitled Our English Homer; or, the Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy, was published by the Johannesburg Times P. & P. Works in 1896. It drew its title from Thomas William White (MA)'s Our English Homer; or, Shakespeare Historically Considered.
Mount Parthenium.
Lawrence Booth (journalist).
The Grands écrivains series.
Bonaparte Lyceum.
Constance Mary Fearon Pott, founder of the Francis Bacon Society (which, one feels, needs an article, too) and author of Did Francis Bacon write Shakespeare?: Thirty-two reasons for believing that he did (1884) and The Lives of Bacon and Shakespeare Compared.
Desmond Bland, author of the Gesta Grayorum.
William Buckland (management consultant), author of Pommies.
Andrew Miller, cricket writer.
R.W. Rix, who asked, "Was Oedipus Framed?"
Bill O'Halloran, who, in John Mehaffey's evocative phrase, was "was a burly, red-haired former rugby player who bowled medium-pace inswing for the Karori club in Wellington."
Merge Frederick Ahl and Frederick M. Ahl.
Eastern Mediterranean.
Bernard Knox, the scholar responsible for "The Date of the Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles," The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 77, No. 2 (1956), 133-147.
Elizabeth Belfiore, classical scholar.
Chris Morrissey (scholar).
Lysimachus.
Assesus.
Francis Bacon's The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies.
Sicinnus, the envoy sent to the Persians by Themistocles prior to the Battle of Salamis.
Mount Aegaleos.
Thespia.
Forest Reserve, Trinidad.
Apheidas.
Ocytus, father of Adeimantus of Corinth. Another Ocytus (Homer) was likely the father of Guneus, who fought in the Trojan War.
Minoan Period.
Procrustes.
Fiddlers Three, whose eminence owes much to her studies of Thucydides.
Mykonos, which is, apparently, compromised by peacock terms.
Uliades of Samos.
Antagoras of Chios.
Eperitus, Odysseus's anonym in the presence of Laertes.
Artemis.
Alcibides.
Parthenon.
Nericus, a place seized by Laertes.
Amphithee, grandmother of Odysseus.
Arceisius.
Miriam Allott.
Wilella Waldorf.
Rachel Blau Du Plessis.
Josephine March.
Anne Mozley.
Rich's "The Temptations of a Motherless Woman".
Aphidne.
Eileithyie, Homeric cave.
Zeus.
Alcimus father of Mentor and Alcimus.
Damastor, father of Agelaus.
Menelaus.
Neocles, father of Themistocles.
Phrearrhioi.
Histaea.
Doriscus.
Peloponnesian War.
Lampus and Phaëton.
Oenops, father of Leodes.
Phrynichus (tragic poet), which is apparently in need of a clean-up.
Ithacus.
Battle of Thermopylae.
New York Kouros.
Alybus, as mentioned in Homer's Odyssey, 24.306.
Leodes.
Nicogenes.
Rumor, as referred to in Homer's Odyssey, 24.413.
Ortilochus.
Iphitos son of Eurytus and disambiguation page.
Neritus.
Dolius, old servant of Penelope.
Epizelus.
Acrothoon.
Plataia.
Polytherses, father of Ctesippus.
Polyctor.
Phaenippus, archon of Athens.
Thrasylaus.
Cuphagoras.
Stesilaus of Ceos.
Corfu Pediment.
Terpius, father of Phemius.
Mulius, a Homeric squire from Dulichium.
Atreus.
Menoetius son Actor.
Cyllenian herms, as mentioned in Hermes's article and alluded to in Homer's Odyssey, 24.1.
Leucippe, on whose page Leocritus's name appears to be incorrectly spelt.
Athena.
Euenor, father of Leocritus.
Calypso (mythology).
Ctesippus, a suitor of Penelope.
Icmalius, a Homeric craftsman.
Old Man of the Sea.
Laertes.
Polyphradmon.
Philomeleides.
Antinous son of Eupeithes.
Nikandre Kore.
Nikandre.
Eupeithes.
Ardericca.
Alpeni.
Phrasikleia.
Nestor (mythology).
Peplos kore.
Nisaea.
La Delicata.
Odysseus.
Trojan War.
Helen.
Euronymus, one of Penelope's suitors.
Melantho and the goatherd Melanthius, daughter and son respectively of Dolius.
Delian League.
Aphrodite.
Mentor.
Dmetor, son of Iasus, who also needs his own page.
Euryclea.
Mastor, father of Halitherses.
Nissus of Dulichium, son of Aretias (who also needs an article) and father of Amphinomus, and his link on the disambiguation page.
Penelope.
The Malice of Herodotus.
Aegina pediments.
St Joseph's Academy (Baton Bridge).
Background on Eumaeus, employing Book 15 of Homer's Odyssey.
Eurymachus, son of Polybus.
Amphinomus.
Jackie Hendricks, West Indian cricket figure.
Aristophanes.
Icarius.
Cecil Marley.
Jamaican Broadcasting Corporation.
Douglas Sang-Hue.
Conditioned Air Corporation.
Polyctor.
Mount Callidromus.
Cortez Jordan.
Arnaeus the beggar. See Irus.
Hermes' Hill, Ithaca.
Medon.
Artanes.
Phratagune
Sperchios.
Habrocomes.
Hyperanthes.
Ipswich Philosophical Society.
Antiphus.
Halitherses.
Kenneth Myrick.
W.F.C. Wigston.
Francis Bacon Foundation.
Constance Mary Fearon Pott.
Aphetae.
Maurice Moiseiwitsch.
Francis Bacon Society.
Prince Hal.
Mark Waugh, to whom a reference section must be appended.
Argos (dog).
James Cowell, the first to expound publicly the Baconian theory.
Frederick Toone.
Francis Lacey.
Phemius.
Polybus.
Peiraeus, Telemachus's loyal ally.
Clytius (Telemachus's attendant), father of Peiraeus, and his link on the disambiguation page.
Polypheides, father of Theoclymenus.
Godlike Theoclymenus himself.
Anthela.
Harrap (publisher).
Ctesius, father of Eumaeus.
Ormenus (father of Ctesius) and his link on the disambiguation page.
Arymbas.