Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
Cast & Crew
Frederic Sullivan
Florence La Badie
Robert Vaughn
Lawrence Swinburne
Robert Whittier
C. W. Hoffman
Film Details
Synopsis
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.
Director
Frederic Sullivan
Cast
Florence La Badie
Robert Vaughn
Lawrence Swinburne
Robert Whittier
Crew
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Notes
The film was produced to coincide with the tercentenary of William Shakespeare's death.
