SHAKESPEARE

Synopsis

Feature film contributing to the Shakespeare tercentenary and concerning the Bacon-Shakespeare authorship question. Miss Gray (LaBadie) and Lieutenant Stanton (Vaughn) are engaged but disagree as to who wrote Shakespeare’s works. She supports Shakespeare’s authorship and he Bacon’s. So strong is their disagreement that they break off the engagement. In the Mexican border wars Stanton is wounded. When she hears the news she falls into a delirium and is transported back into the sixteenth century where she is saved from abduction by her lover and a strolling player who turns out to be Shakespeare (Swinburne). Later Bacon (Whittier) falls in love with her. He declares that the Shakespeare play being performed has been stolen from him and provokes a duel in which the lover is slain. When the girl comes too, she finds herself at home where she falls into the arms of her young lieutenant whom she discovers is not as badly hurt as she first thought. Overjoyed she renounces her Baconian theories.

Country

United States

Medium

Film

Technical information

Black-and-white / Silent

Year of release

1916

Duration

c55; c5000 feet

Availability

Presumed a lost film.

Credits

Director

Frederic Sullivan

Screenplay

Philip Lonergan

Cast

Florence LaBadie	Miss Gray
Lawrence Swinburne	William Shakespeare
Robert Vaughn (2)	Lieutenant Stanton
Roger Whittier	Francis Bacon

Additional Details

Production type

Fiction Films

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Authorship; Time Travel

Production Company

Name

Thanhauser Film Corporation