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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 1
IS  - 7
T2  - Baconiana: The Online Journal of the Francis Bacon Society
ID  - bbbm425
T1  - "For Alexander Pope, Francis Bacon was the Humblest of Mankind"
AU  - McIlroy, Susan
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2026
LA  - English
AB  - Seeks to recuperate Francis Bacon's reputation in eyes of Alexander Pope, noting that Pope's characterization of Bacon as "mean" was also applied to himself. Connects various pieces of evidence -- including ambiguous meanings of "mean" and related words throughout Shakespeare's corpus; Hemings and Condell's apparent use of "meanest" to describe Shakespeare's works; Pope's description of Bacon as "the greatest Genius that England (or perhaps any country) ever produced"; and Pope's admiration of Shakespeare -- to conclude that Bacon was involved in writing Shakespeare's plays. 
ER  -