Law Sports at Gray's Inn (1594) Including Shakespeare's Connection..
- 2010
2010. ISBN-13: 9781584779896; ISBN-10: 1584779896. Shakespeare, Bacon and the Law Brown, Basil. Law Sports at Gray's Inn (1594) Including Shakespeare's connection with the Inns of Court, the origin of the Capias Utlegatum re Coke and Bacon, Francis Bacon's connection with Warwickshire, together with a reprint of the Gesta Grayorum. Originally published: New York: [Privately Printed by the Author], 1921. xciv, 188, 88, [9] pp. Reprinted 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584779896; ISBN-10: 1584779896. Paperback. New. $15.95 * This interesting volume examines legal aspects of the lives and writings of Shakespeare and Bacon. Includes the text of the hard-to-find Gesta Grayorum, which is attributed in part to Bacon. Brown also describes the origin of the Capias Utlegatum insult offered to Bacon by Queen Elizabeth's attorney general, Sir Edward Coke.