Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
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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.
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Cast
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Florence La Badie
Miss Gray
Also in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Man Without a Country
Robert Vaughn
Lieutenant Stanton
Also in
Brothers Equal
The Fires of Youth
Lawrence Swinburne
William Shakespeare
Also in
The Whispered Word
Clarissa's Charming Calf
Robert Whittier
Francis Bacon
Also in
Parsifal
A Bird of Prey
Frederick Sullivan Director
United States release April 20, 1916 · Produced in United States
Production
Thanhouser Film Corporation
Production
United States
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English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · April 20, 1916
Theatrical
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