Early writings, 1584-1596
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Early writings, 1584-1596
（The Oxford Francis Bacon, 1）
Clarendon Press, 2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 1039-1047) and index
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Description
This volume belongs to the new critical edition of the complete works of Francis Bacon (1561-1626). The edition presents the works in broadly chronological order and in accordance with the principles of modern textual scholarship. This volume contains Bacon's earliest known writings, dating from 1584 to 1596, comprising position papers, commentaries on printed works, legal readings and opinions, and discourses of advice, usually written in response to specific
events or demands, and circulated in manuscript. Bacon's writings to 1596 generally reflect his professional occupations: legal, political, and parliamentary. They include substantial writings on the Martin Marprelate controversy of 1588-1589, Roman Catholic attacks on Elizabeth's government (1593);
dramatic entertainments put on at Gray's Inn and the court; tracts on important legal cases of the period; notes from his extensive reading; and letters of advice written for and to Bacon's patron, Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex. Despite the 'occasional' nature of these writings, there is clearly visible across them the early signs - 'seeds' as their author would call them-of the philosophy Francis Bacon would later come to write. The writings are presented with substantial
introductions, and full commentaries and glossaries
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- THIS EDITION: PRINCIPLES AND CONVENTIONS
- THE TEXTS
- THE COMMENTARIES
- APPENDICES
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