© Gunnar Tómasson

16 January 2015

The Shakespeare Authorship Question

Introduction

The name William Shakespeare first appeared in print with the publication of Venus and Adonis in 1593. Now, 422 years later, the identity of the author behind the name remains controversial. On the one side are the great majority of “orthodox” literary scholars and, on the other side, a vocal group of “heretics” who are dismissed by the orthodox as charlatans and/or ignoramuses in the field of literary scholarship.

Of one such alleged ignoramus, Henry James (1843 –1916), T. S. Eliot wrote in 1918:

“[Henry] James’s critical genius comes out most tellingly in his mastery over, his baffling escape from, Ideas; a mastery and an escape which are perhaps the last test of a superior intelligence. He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it. […] In England, ideas run wild and pasture on the emotions; instead of thinking with our feelings (a very different thing) we corrupt our feelings with ideas; we produce the public, the political, the emotional idea, evading sensation and thought. […] James in his novels is like the best French critics in maintaining a point of view, a view-point untouched by the parasite idea. He is the most intelligent man of his generation.“

Applying his “critical genius” to the “authorship question”, this “most intelligent man of his generation” had this to say on the subject matter:

“I am … haunted by the conviction that he divine William is the biggest and most successful fraud ever practiced on a patient world.”

What is truth?

If so, then “orthodox”, a.k.a. Stratfordian, scholars, have been played for fools for over four centuries!

In turn, they claim there never was any “authorship question” until long after the “divine” William had gone to his heavenly reward, having composed the following verse for inscription on his gravestone:

14036 = Good frend for Iesvs sake forbeare,
12961 = To digg the dvst encloased heare.
16616 = Bleste be ye man yt spares thes stones,
13912 = And cvrst be he yt moves my bones.

57525

In ancient creation myth, “stones” and “bones” are associated with “maidenhead” and a risen “shake-speare” become One Flesh in “a consummation devoutly to be wish’d” of which Prince Hamlet speaks in his “to be or not to be”soliloquy.

And, as it happens, the Prince alludes to this in his immediate reaction to being assigned by Ghost of his Father to “revenge” his Father’s “murder most foule”.

18729 = Oh all you host of heauen!  Oh Earth; what els?                                               

15857 = And shall I couple Hell?  Oh fie:  hold my heart;  

21200 = And you my sinnewes, grow not instant Old;                     

9827 = But beare me stiffely vp:                                                              

65613

Having had to “couple hell”, Prince Hamlet prays that his “sinnews” not fail him but “bear him stiffly up”.

Or, in blunt modern terms, the Prince prays that he will not suffer “erectile disfunction” while effecting his uncoupling from “hell” for a heavenly “consummation devoutly to be wish’d” with Virgin Ophelia.

The Cipher Sum of the Stratfordian’s curse and Hamlet’s sworn “revenge” is 57525 + 65613 = 123138.

Francis Bacon’s Essay,

Of Truth (1625)

 Bacon began his essay with the words of Pontius Pilate, “What is truth”, before he made Jesus suffer “murder most foule” by crucifixion.

In his essay’s Omega paragraph, Bacon turned a question asked by Luke 18:18 into a prophecy, as follows:

22422 = Surely the Wickednesse of Falshood, and Breach of Faith

17402 = cannot possibly be so highly expressed,

13942 = as in that it shall be the last Peale,

24494 = to call the Iudgements of God, vpon the Generations of Men,

20293 = It being foretold, that when Christ commeth,

  15732 = He shall not finde faith vpon the earth.

Christ…

8753 = Jesus Kristus

…commeth at

100 = The End (of Time)

123138

Dickens: A fine mystery and

I tremble every day lest something turn up

Years ago, when I used  the Saga-Shakespeare Cipher Key in an exchange with Stratfordian scholars on the Shakespeare Authorship Question on the internet, a recognized “authority” on the matter opined that I was “crazier than a shithouse rat” – a revealing example of Stratfordian civility and conceited sense of intellectual superiority over any who disagree with them.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) wrote, tongue-in-cheek, on Stratfordian intellectual insecurity as follows:

“It is a great comfort, to my way of thinking, that so little is known concerning the poet. The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.”

Dickens’ phrasing reveals that he knew  that I – “man” – is a mythical term for a male procreative “bone” supported by “sinnewes” – that “turns up” and “trembles” in a “consummation devoutly to be wish’d” will not warm the hearts of Stratfordians who have been played for fools for centuries!

Cf. Jorge Luis Borges:

“All men, in the climactic instant of coitus, are the same man. All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare.”

And: “Every man is Shakespeare and Shakespeare is Everyman.”

The Truth Was Always Known

Venus and Adonis (1593)

The Truth was “documented” in enciphered form through the Title page and Dedication of Venus and Adonis on its publication in 1593 as follows:

 I. Citation on Title Page

(Ovid’s Amores)

20165 = Vilia miretur vulgus: mihi flauus Apollo

16408 = Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua.*

36573

*Christopher Marlowe’s translation:

Let base conceited wits admire vile things;

Fair Phoebus lead me to the Muses’ springs.

II. Dedication (1593)

Venus and Adonis

    9987 = TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE

20084 = Henrie Vvriothesley, Earle of Southampton,

8814 = and Baron of Titchfield.

21943 = Right Honourable, I know not how I shall offend

23463 = in dedicating my vnpolisht lines to your Lordship,

25442 = nor how the worlde vvill censure mee for choosing

25266 = so strong a proppe to support so vveake a burthen,

17161 = onelye if your Honour seeme but pleased,

13387 = I account my selfe highly praised,

18634 = and vowe to take aduantage of all idle houres,

23217 = till I haue honoured you vvith some grauer labour.

23437 = But if the first heire of my inuention proue deformed,

15796 = I shall be sorie it had so noble a god-father:

12970 = and neuer after eare so barren a land,

16690 = for feare it yeeld me still so bad a haruest,

17417 = l leaue it to your Honourable suruey,

18884 = and your Honor to your hearts content,

27199 = vvhich I wish may alvvaies answere your ovvne vvish,

17766 = and the vvorlds hopefull expectation.

11662 = Your Honors in all dutie,

9322 = William Shakespeare

378541

Conversion from Paganism to Christianity

In Icelandic Saga Myth

(Einar Pálsson)

In Njáls Saga the ancient pagan Time is converted into the Holy Ghost of Christianity, Christian Time. This probably happens allegorically in the year 1000. […]  We may thus assume that the allegorical meaning of Bergþórshváll [13^th century spelling] is that the old gods perish and that Christ takes over their function as creator of heaven and earth.  The allegory refers to the conversion to Christianity.  (Allegory in Njáls Saga and its Basis in Pythagorean Thought, Mímir, Reykjavík, 1998, pp. 249-250)

III. Alpha and Omega

Of Christian Time

    7196 = Bergþórshváll

                Old gods perish

– 10467 = Osiris-Isis-Horus

                Christ takes over

1000 = Light of the World

                Holy Ghost

10773 = Spiritus Sanctus

                Time as Idiot´s Hour on Stage

2602 = 26 April [Second month old-style]

1564 = 1564, Will Shakspere’s “baptismal” date

2502 = 25 April

1616 = 1616, Will Shakspere’s “burial” date

100 = The End (of Time)

 16886

I + II + III = 36573 + 378541 + 16886 = 432000.

The Age of Kali Yuga

Idiot’s “hour” on Stage

Kali-yuga, the Age of Quarrel, is a period of time lasting 432,000 years and characterized by hypocrisy, degradation, and an overall rise in vice. It is the last and worst of the four great ages (Satya-, Treta-, Dwapara-, and Kali-yugas) mentioned in ancient Vedic literature. We’re now living in a Kali-yuga that began around five thousand years ago. (http://www.krishna.com/info/kali-yuga)

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A calculator for converting letters to cipher values is on the Internet at:

http://www.light-of-truth.com/ciphersaga.htm