The Second Cryptographic Shakespeare: A Monograph Wherein the Poems and Plays Attributed to William Shakespeare are Proven to Contain the Enciphered Name of the Concealed Author, Francis BaconWestchester House, 1990 - 313 pages There is considerable doubt about the facts of Shakespeare's life. For a long time I have been certain that the Bard of Avon was a decoy. Now, by science, I intend to prove that our actor, Mr. Shakespeare, is worthy only of that pity we reserve for literary impostors. Why might Bacon have concealed his creations? Are there ciphers in Shakespeare's works? |
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Page 126
... example of the cryptographer's use of this method is the selec- tion of the initial letters of each line of a poem so as to spell a word or name . The letters may first be superenciphered to make the solution more difficult . Anagram An ...
... example of the cryptographer's use of this method is the selec- tion of the initial letters of each line of a poem so as to spell a word or name . The letters may first be superenciphered to make the solution more difficult . Anagram An ...
Page 133
... examples of the various spellings , abbreviations and forms of title to which they resort . For which fitting example and final remark , my gratitude to the Friedmans . A few years ago , Wayne Shumaker , Professor Emeritus of English at ...
... examples of the various spellings , abbreviations and forms of title to which they resort . For which fitting example and final remark , my gratitude to the Friedmans . A few years ago , Wayne Shumaker , Professor Emeritus of English at ...
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... example , of six different name spellings , shows this to be an acceptable Seventeenth Century acrostic practice . There is a very good reason why Bacon did alter the spelling of his surname , and an example is given by David Kahn in ...
... example , of six different name spellings , shows this to be an acceptable Seventeenth Century acrostic practice . There is a very good reason why Bacon did alter the spelling of his surname , and an example is given by David Kahn in ...
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acrostic actor Alban alternate letters Anonymous Anonymous appears Aspley authorship Bacon's cipher Baconiana beginning Ben Jonson Bote-swaine Briggs Caesar cipher capitalized century Chambers cipher system ciphertext letters Ciphertext reversed COLOR concealed counterfeit cryptanalysis cryptographic cryptology Cyphars David Kahn death deciphered decryption Dedication Dictionary edition Elizabethan enciphered English example father Folger Folger Shakespeare Library Folio Francis Bacon Friedmans GOTO hath haue Heminge and Condell Henry the Fourth invention John Jonson Kahn King Latin learned letter alphabet literary logarithms London Lord mathematics method Midsommer Nights Dreame monument Napier numbers Plaintext Plaintext reversed plays poem poet PRINT CHR published quarto Rape of Lucrece reference Richard scholars Shake SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS Shaksper signature solution Sonnets speare spelled steganography Stratford Stratfordian substitution cipher things thou tion title-page Tragedie Trithemius verse William Shakespeare word write written wrote