Editing Roger Bacon (section)

==In popular culture==
[[File:William Blake, Visionary Heads of Friar Roger Bacon and Poet Gray.jpg|upright|thumb|[[William Blake]]'s ''[[Visionary Heads|visionary head]]'' of "Friar Bacon"]]
To commemorate the 700th anniversary of Bacon's approximate year of birth, [[John Erskine (educator)|Prof. J. Erskine]] wrote the biographical play ''A Pageant of the Thirteenth Century'', which was performed and published by [[Columbia University]] in 1914.{{sfnp|Erskine|1914}}<ref>{{citation |last=Baker |first=Blanch M. |author-mask=Baker |title=Dramatic Bibliography |date=1933 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=4iL0a2rQzsgC&pg=PA180 180] }}</ref> A fictionalised account of Bacon's life and times also appears in the second book of [[James Blish]]'s ''After Such Knowledge'' trilogy, the 1964 ''[[Doctor Mirabilis (novel)|Doctor Mirabilis]]''.{{sfnp|Blish|1964}} Bacon serves as a mentor to the protagonists of [[Thomas B. Costain|Thomas Costain]]'s 1945 ''[[The Black Rose (novel)|The Black Rose]]'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Roger Bacon|url=https://sites.google.com/site/lis763theblackrose/for-history-buffs/roger-bacon|work=The Black Rose|publisher=Google Sites|access-date=27 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Black Rose|url=http://unsworth.unet.brandeis.edu/courses/bestsellers/search.cgi?title=The+Black+Rose|publisher=Brandeis University|access-date=27 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140428004449/http://unsworth.unet.brandeis.edu/courses/bestsellers/search.cgi?title=The+Black+Rose|archive-date=28 April 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref> and [[Umberto Eco]]'s 1980 ''[[The Name of the Rose]]''.<ref>{{citation |last=Scult |first=A. |date=1985 |contribution=Book Reviews |title=The Quarterly Journal of Speech |volume=71, No.&nbsp;4 |issue=4 |pages=489–506 |doi=10.1080/00335638509383751 }}</ref>
[[Robert Greene (dramatist)|Greene]]'s [[Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay|play]] prompted a less successful sequel ''[[John of Bordeaux]]'' and was recast as a children's story for [[James Baldwin (editor and author)|James Baldwin]]'s 1905 ''Thirty More Famous Stories Retold''.{{sfnp|Baldwin|1905}} "The [[Brazen Head]] of Friar Bacon" also appears in [[Daniel Defoe]]'s 1722 ''[[A Journal of the Plague Year|Journal of the Plague Year]]'', [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]'s 1843 "[[The Birth-Mark]]" and 1844 "[[The Artist of the Beautiful]]", William Douglas O'Connor's 1891 "The Brazen Android" (where Bacon devises it to terrify [[Henry III of England|King Henry]] into accepting [[Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester|Simon de Montfort]]'s demands for greater democracy),<ref>{{citation |last=Anders |first=Charlie Jane |contribution-url=http://io9.com/5260116/walt-whitmans-best-friend-wrote-the-first-robot-revolution-story |contribution=Walt Whitman's Best Friend Wrote the First Robot Revolution Story |date=18 May 2009 |title=io9 |url=http://www.io9.com }}</ref><ref>[[William Douglas O'Connor|O'Conner]], "[https://archive.org/details/BrazenAndroid The Brazen Android]" (audiobook hosted at Internet Archive).</ref> [[John Cowper Powys]]'s 1956 ''The Brazen Head'', and [[Robertson Davies]]'s 1970 ''[[Fifth Business]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Fifth Business|url=http://www.studymode.com/essays/Fifth-Business-8315.html|publisher=Study Mode|access-date=27 April 2014}}</ref> Bacon appears in Rudyard Kipling's 1926 story 'The Eye of Allah'.