Francis Bacon Tudor Equals William Shakespeare'The Shakespeare Controversy', otherwise known as 'Who Wrote Shakespeare?', has been a literary problem for generations. Countless attempts have been made to show that someone other than Shakespeare, or some group of people, wrote the Plays and The Sonnets. Peck's method of solving this problem was to look for cipher (secret writing) that might reveal the real author. Rather than searching the thousands of lines of The Plays and The Sonnets for ciphers, he singled out the odd original epitaph on Shakespeare's tombstone as a possible source of a concealed message. The peculiarities of the inscription had coaxed others before him to grapple with its strange context. In this exciting book, the author has demonstrated the importance of mathematical probability in support of ciphers. The math is simplified by interesting explanations. With the ciphers, he then answers the question of authorship while tying Sir Francis Bacon to the Tudor family. |
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ABLE RISK acrostic alphabetical order already anagram answer appear applied arrangements average Boleyn Bones CAPITAL LETTER CIPHER chance complete confirm connect count value curst decipherer deciphering DNB F G eight letters enciphered encipherer Enclo-Ased HE.Re encouraged epitaph equals expect five letters followed four Francis Bacon Tudor frequency count frequency letters Hamlet HEARE HEIR Henry hyphen included inscription kukv last line least letter combination limit look match mathematics matter mean moves needed Nicholas normal noticeable numbers odds once opposite original pairs PEARE period pick placements Plays possible produce question reason SAKE forbeare samples Shakespeare shown side Sir Francis Sir Francis Bacon Special Cipher key spelling starting Stones taken things thought tombstone Transition Cipher Tudor understand vowels writing written
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Page 9 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear • Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, Deaf 'd with the clamours of their own dear groans.
Page 2 - We give it as it stands, in an uncouth mixture of small and large letters : Good Frend for Jesus SAKE forbeare To digg TE Dust EncloAsed HERe Blese be TE Man y spares T-ES Stones And Curst be He * moves my Bones.
Page 1 - SAKE forbeare To diGG TE Dust Enclo-Ased HE.Re. Blese be TE Man Y spares T.Es Stones And curst be He Y moves my Bones.
Page xi - Dugdale in 1636, the year the book was written, though not published till twenty years later, and subsequently at different periods, by Steevens, Malone, and Knight. It is not remarkable that these copyists slightly differ...