© Gunnar Tómasson

30 June 2016

Overview

(Wikipedia)

The arguments presented by anti-Stratfordians share several characteristics. They attempt to disqualify William Shakespeare as the author and usually offer supporting arguments for a substitute candidate. They often postulate some type of conspiracy that protected the author’s true identity, which they say explains why no documentary evidence exists for their candidate and why the historical record supports Shakespeare’s authorship.

Most anti-Stratfordians say that the Shakespeare canon exhibits such breadth of learning and intimate knowledge of the Elizabethan and Jacobean court and politics that no one but a highly educated nobleman or court insider could have written it. Apart from literary references, critical commentary and acting notices, the available data regarding Shakespeare’s life consist of mundane personal details such as vital records of his baptism, marriage and death, tax records, lawsuits to recover debts, and real estate transactions. In addition, no document attests that he received an education. No personal letters or literary manuscripts certainly written by Shakespeare of Stratford survive. Despite the low survival rate for documents of this period, to sceptics, these gaps in the record suggest the profile of a person who differs markedly from the playwright and poet. Some prominent public figures, including Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Helen Keller, Henry James, Sigmund Freud, Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles, have found the arguments against Shakespeare’s authorship persuasive, and their endorsements are an important element in many anti-Stratfordian arguments.

At the core of the argument is the nature of acceptable evidence used to attribute works to their authors. Anti-Stratfordians rely on what has been called a „rhetoric of accumulation“, or what they designate as circumstantial evidence: similarities between the characters and events portrayed in the works and the biography of their preferred candidate; literary parallels with the known works of their candidate; and hidden codes and cryptographic allusions in Shakespeare’s own works or texts written by contemporaries. By contrast, academic Shakespeareans and literary historians rely mainly on direct documentary evidence—in the form of title page attributions and government records such as the Stationers’ Register and the Accounts of the Revels Office—and contemporary testimony from poets, historians, and those players and playwrights who worked with him, as well as modern stylometric studies. Scholars say all these converge to confirm William Shakespeare’s authorship. These criteria are the same as those used to credit works to other authors and are accepted as the standard methodology for authorship attribution.

Comment

The ”standard methodology“ has been developed – and is used – by the so-called Shakespeare Industry. At stake are valuable business and academic interests which recently have been in ”denial“ in the face of a tsunami of persuasive evidence in favor of Edward de Vere/Oxenford as the ”real“ or – as I would put it – the ”original“ author of the Shakespeare Opus, later edited and augmented by Francis Bacon.

The presentation below is centered on the Dedication of a book entitled Polimanteia by William Covell, 7665, or William Clerke, 7050. The reason for the doubt about the author’s name is unclear but in the context of the Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare tradition, it may reside in the two-brother theme of ancient Creation Myth (Cain and Abel, Romulus and Remus) where the “two brothers” are inborn psychological attributes of Man.

“Strife” between Two Brothers is the motive force of Man’s evolution on the Seventh Day of Creation, whose resolution at The End, 100, marks the end of “strife” and advent of Utopia or Brave New World.

The Shakespeare Authorship Issue centers on the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, 6149, who signed his written work as Edward Oxenford, 7936. In the context of Creation Myth, both brothers are manifestations of God/Monad, 1, whose “first heire” proves to be “deformed” (as in the Dedication of Venus and Adonis, the first work published (1593) by William Shakespeare.

In Macbeth, the title character is expressly referred to as Tyrant which is a Platonic concept expressed in numerical form as 729 as in 1 + 729 + 6149 + 7936 = 14815. This is also the Cipher Value of The End of “strife” between the Two Authors of Polimanteia, 7665 + 7050 + 100 = 14815.

In Macbeth, the Tyrant’s HEAD, 10, was to be placed on display at play’s end, which in Ben Jonson’s First folio commemorative ode for William Shakespeare is symbolized by the ‘return’ of Sweet Swan of Avon, 10805, alias Cosmic Creative Power in the form of Flaming Sword, 4000 as in 10 + 4000 + 10805 = 14815.

Stratfordians, in academia and business, argue that there is NO Shakespeare Authorship Issue – and that anyone who thinks otherwise is misguided and/or mentally deranged. There are no ifs and buts in the Cipher Analysis below but Stratfordians are put off by it as were Pisan academics by Galileo‘s telescope.

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First to be addressed is whether one who questions Stratfordian orthodoxy is a Conspiracy Theorist? The brief answer is NO – and it is rooted in the command of of Jesus the Christ in Matt. 16.20

I. Was there a Shakespeare Conspiracy?

(Matt. 16:20 and Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Myth)

175645

11853 = Then charged hee his disciples

26502 = that they should tel no man that he was Iesus the Christ.

Virgil – Fourth Eclogue¹

The majestic roll of circling centuries begins anew

20087 = Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo.

1 = Monad

1000 = Light of the World

1612 = Hell

16290 = The Sacred Triangle of Pagan Iceland – Man’s Life Course²

4000 = Flaming Sword – Revealed Cosmic Creative Power

Light of the World‘s

Revelation

   1654 = ION

3412 = Platon

4946 = Socrates

Light of the World‘s

Disciples

14209 = Quintus Horatius Flaccus

12337 = Publius Virgilius Maro

11999 = Sextus Propertius

11249 = Publius Ovidius Naso

11359 = Snorri Sturluson

9814 = Sturla Þórðarson

5385 = Francis Bacon

   7936 = Edward Oxenford

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II. Polimanteia – Dedication

(William Covell/William Clerke, 1595)

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 27765 = To the right honourable , Robert Devorax Earle of Essex and Ewe,

27645 = Vicount of Hereforde, Lord Ferrer of Chartley, Borcher, and Lovaine,

17440= Master of the Queenes Maiesties Horse,

16034 = Knight of the noble order of the Garter,

25150 = and one of her Maiesties most Honourable privie Councell.

16069 = It is easie to gesse (honourable Lorde)

27197 = why Schollars flocke under the patronage of men in your place;

13431 = their condition is so weake,

21424 = that unlesse men truly honourable doe defend them,

18124 = they are most of all in this age distressed.

27533 = And yet (brave noble Lorde) ingeniously to confesse my true meaning)

20408 = it is not that which mooved me at this time;

28619 = but it is the height of admiration which my thoughts conceived

29313 = of your honours worth, that made me thinke all men bound to offer

28652 = signes of love and dutie, where both are deserved in so high a measure.

25502 = I take upon me Englands person and speake like a Common-wealth.

25591 = And therfore howsoever it were presumption in me

16227 = to dedicate papers of so small moment,

15261 = to a personage of so rare worth,

23973 = yet (honourable Lorde) take them as your cuntries talke,

20121 = vouchsafe to reade them stamped with her name,

26837 = and so all shall be afraide to mislike them, beeing graced with yours.

24378 = And yet I weigh not whether other mislike them or no;

31718 = let but your honour for learnings sake (a thing which I know you doe

22376 = say you are content to accept of the meanest trifle,

19733 = and grace it with a good looke, and then I contemne

21423 = what male-contented melancholy can speake against me.

20620 = Your honour (be it spoken without envie)

31257 = like Englands Cedar is sprung up to preserve with your shadowe,

23226 = the humblest in all professions, from hatreds malice.

20088 = The warlike and braue soldier thinkes him selfe

26960 = (and that in truth is) graced, to be tearmed but your follower.

22422 = The worthy and kinde passionate Courtier deemes

24397 = (and worthily) this his honour, to be your favorite.

29954 = The sober and devout student, that dispised doeth walke melancholy,

17821 = takes himselfe (and not without cause)

17536 = fortunate to be tearmed your schollar.

20171 = Thus all relye noble Lord, vpon your favour.

17751 = And I (who though I must needs honour)

31497 = yet usually with so deepe affection am not devoted without cause)

31956 = doe so in kindnesse and love if that be not a word too presumptuous)

26720 = passe over the full interest of my selfe to your dispose,

21867 = as in what kinde soever a schollar may doe his dutie,

17022 = I am readie and desirous to be commanded by you:

9416 = then accept (noble lorde)

19972 = the willing mind of him that hath nothing else:

28856 = and say, that that alone, is absolutely sufficient to content you.

25957 = Read it, but (or if that be to much) doe but accept it, and so rest.

24274 = Whereof not doubting in the middest of so many signes

24156 = of a schollar-respecting honour, in dutie I kisse my hand,

8401 = and humbly take my leave.

20525 = Your honours in all duty most affectionate,

    2347 = W.C.

1183113

I + II = 175645 + 1183113 = 1358758

III + IV + V + VI = 511378 + 298870 + 286273 + 262237 = 1358758

III. Edward Oxenford‘s Imperfect Booke

To be perfected by ‘Cosen Bacon‘

(Letter to Robert Cecil)

511378

   9205 = My very good brother,

11119 = yf my helthe hadd beene to my mynde

20978 = I wowlde have beene before this att the Coorte

16305 = as well to haue giuen yow thankes

15468 = for yowre presence at the hearinge

15274 = of my cause debated as to have moued her M

10054 = for her resolutione.

23461 = As for the matter, how muche I am behouldinge to yow

22506 = I neede not repeate but in all thankfulnes acknowlege,

13131 = for yow haue beene the moover &

14231 = onlye follower therofe for mee &

19082 = by yowre onlye meanes I have hetherto passed

13953 = the pykes of so many adversaries.

16856 = Now my desyre ys. Sythe them selues

15903 = whoo have opposed to her M ryghte

17295 = seeme satisfisde, that yow will make

7234 = the ende ansuerabel

22527 = to the rest of yowre moste friendlye procedinge.

12363 = For I am aduised, that I may passe

22634 = my Booke from her Magestie yf a warrant may be procured

21532 = to my Cosen Bacon and Seriant Harris to perfet yt.

25516 = Whiche beinge doone I know to whome formallye to thanke

16614 = but reallye they shalbe, and are from me, and myne,

23196 = to be sealed up in an aeternall remembran&e to yowreselfe.

18733 = And thus wishinge all happines to yow,

13574 = and sume fortunat meanes to me,

19549 = wherby I myght recognise soo diepe merites,

13775 = I take my leave this 7th of October

11101 = from my House at Hakney 1601.

15668 = Yowre most assured and louinge

4605 = Broother

   7936 = Edward Oxenford

511378

IV. ‘Christopher Marlowe’s’ Translation of Ovid’s Amores

(Book 1, Elegia 15)

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Alpha

22773 = Envie, why carpest thou my time is spent so ill,

20689 = And tearmes my works fruits of an idle quill?

20588 = Or that unlike the line from whence I sprong,

19712 = Wars dustie honors are refused being yong,

20425 = Nor that I studie not the brawling lawes,

17527 = Nor set my voyce to sale in everie cause?

16730 = Thy scope is mortall, mine eternall fame,

17995 = That all the world may ever chaunt my name.

Omega

19425 = Let base conceited wits admire vilde things,

19004 = Faire Phoebus leade me to the muses springs.

18139 = About my head be quivering Mirtle wound,

14368 = And in sad lovers heads let me be found.

14336 = The living, not the dead can envie bite,

17312 = For after death all men receive their right:

20568 = Then though death rackes my bones in funerall fier,

19279 = Ile live, and as he puls me downe, mount higher

298870

V. To those ignorant in the affairs he went about.

(Queen‘s Privy Council, June 29, 1587)

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13324 = Whereas it was reported

20960 = that Christopher Marlowe was determined

10834 = to have gone beyond the seas

10972 = to Rheims and there remain,

19800 = their Lordships thought good to certify

18025 = that he behaved himself orderly and discreetly

17855 = whereby he had done her Majesty good service,

20745 = and deserved to be rewarded for his faithful dealing.

25159 = Their Lordships request that the rumour thereof

14324 = should be allayed by all possible means

17152 = and that he should be furthered in the degree

18014 = he was to take this next commencement;

19521 = because it was not her Majesty‘s pleasure

11702 = that anyone employed as he had been

21815 = in matters touching the benefit of his country

9384 = should be defamed by those

16687 = ignorant in the affairs he went about.

286273

VI. The Workes of William Shakespeare

Principall Actors in All These Plays

(First Folio, 1623)

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16746 = The Workes of William Shakespeare,

22079 = Containing all his Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies:

24970 = Truely set forth, according to their first Originall.

22800 = The names of the principall actors in all these playes.

9322 = William Shakespeare

7129 = Samuel Gilburne,

6043 = Richard Burbadge,

5999 = Robert Armin,

5933 = John Hemmings,

8403 = William Ostler,

9833 = Augustine Phillips,

4250 = Nathan Field,

7196 = William Kempt,

8265 = John Underwood,

6384 = Thomas Poope,

7352 = Nicholas Tooley,

4591 = George Bryan,

9505 = William Ecclestone,

5558 = Henry Condell,

6674 = Joseph Taylor,

6424 = William Slye,

6149 = Robert Benfield,

7126 = Richard Cowly,

6432 = Robert Goughe,

6314 = John Lowine,

7906 = Richard Robinson,

7646 = Samuell Crosse,

5070 = John Shancke,

6185 = Alexander Cooke,

3953 = John Rice.³

262237 

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Calculator for converting letters to cipher values is at:

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

¹ Wikipedia: In late antiquity and the Middle Ages, the poem was reinterpreted by Christians to be about the birth of Jesus Christ. Medieval scholars thus claimed that Virgil had somehow predicted Christ prior to his birth, and that Virgil therefore must have been a pre-Christian prophet. Notable individuals such as Constantine the Great, St. Augustine, Dante Alighieri, and Alexander Pope believed in this interpretation of the eclogue. Modern scholars by and large shy away from this interpretation, although Floyd does note that the poem contains elements of religious and mythological themes, and R. G. M. Nisbet concluded that it is likely that Virgil was indirectly inspired by the Hebrew Scriptures via Eastern oracles.

² Einar Pálsson: Bergþórshváll, 7196; Miðeyjarhólmr, 6067; Helgafell, 3027, as in 7196 + 6067 + 3027 = 16290.

³ The total Cipher Value of the Actors‘ Names is 175642. In Brennu-Njálssaga, the final Act of Revenge for the Burning of Njáll is decapitation of the Last Arsonist/Man-Beast of Seventh Day by the Sword of Kári Sölmundarson (Time and Space personified), “and the head spoke ten as it flew off the body”, as in 175642 – 7 + 10 = 175645. Ten is the Number of Father with whom Jesus the Christ is ONE, cf. 175645 in I. above.