books.google.ca - Bacon intended to prove that the plays attributed to William Shakespeare were written by a coterie of men, including Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh and Edmund Spenser, for the purpose of inculcating a philosophic system, for which they felt that they t...http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Philosophy_of_the_Plays_of_Shakespea.html?id=wdTMeqROqfIC&q=scholasticism&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare