Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player

Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player

1916 · 50 min · ★ 10.0 · Drama

Unable to agree on the man responsible for the plays commonly attributed to William Shakespeare, Miss Gray, who favors Francis Bacon, and Lieutenant Stanton, who accepts Shakespeare as the author, break off their engagement. Stanton then arranges to be transferred to the Mexican border, and while fighting there is badly wounded. When she hears the news about Stanton's condition, Miss Gray faints, and then dreams that she has been transported to Elizabethan times. Then, after Bacon falls in love with her, she discovers his obsessive jealousy of Shakespeare, and learns that he has bribed a courtier to accuse him of stealing Bacon's plays. As a result, when Miss Gray wakes up, she realizes that she has championed the wrong poet, and so she immediately is reconciled with Stanton, who soon recovers from his wound.

Directed by Frederick Sullivan

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Florence La Badie Miss Gray
Robert Vaughn Lieutenant Stanton
Lawrence Swinburne William Shakespeare
Robert Whittier Francis Bacon

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