tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16570583197601714272012-03-09T23:36:41.041+08:00"Make Anagrams of our Names." — Ben JonsonJ. F.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09373030207647499779noreply@blogger.comBlogger1391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657058319760171427.post-80700590691147981502012-03-07T11:38:00.001+08:002012-03-07T11:39:50.185+08:00

This epigram praises King James, but to call him a priest is suspicious. The Union is actually the ring of Wilton House poets (Wilton House circle).          V.      On the Union. WHen was there contract better driven by Fate? [1] Or celebrated with more truth of State? The World the Temple was, the Priest a King, The spoused paire two Realmes, the Sea the ring. [0, 1] V. On the Union. WHen:

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Hard Names, Knight Less This epigram mocks at King James, who "scarce can spell th'hard names: whose Knight less can." James and names differ in J (I) and n. If we harden letter n, it becomes I. Hard names riddles James. Knight without -ht is Knig, an anagram of King; Knight less riddles King, hinted by scarce can spell th'.            III.       To my Bookseller.[0] THou that mak'st gaine

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The eight kings in Macbeth are Wilton House playwrights written for the play company King's Men (Lord Chamberlain's Men). The original design was to entertain Queen Elizabeth with plays by Shakespeare, a spirit-like front man. This could avoid trouble like Marlowe in 1593, a charge of blasphemy for his words. This scene follows the three apparitions. • like the first, like the former:: all

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Terence, a slave playwright John Davies' epigram 159 to 161 tell the story of Christopher Marlowe. Davies compared Marlowe to Terence, a slave who wrote for his Roman master, like Marlowe for Mary Sidney's Wilton House. Davies has various dedications to the Sidneys and Herberts. He and Marlowe together published the Epigrammes and Elegies. Davis, Marlowe, and Pembroke are somehow connected.

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The function of Strephon, Claius, and Urania at the beginning of the new Arcadia is a myth itself, for their talk is tedious and irrelevant; however, if we decode their names, the message is clear: Urania "maintained friendship between rivals." Claius is Strephon's "friendly rival." The three names form anagram of Protestant, Catholic, and Queen Elisabeth. Strephon and Claius, Protestant and

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Pamela and Philoclea are daughters of Basilius, the king of Arcadia. Taffeta, Net To confirm an anagram is harder than to assert it. Arcadia uses seemingly tedious lines to do that. Philoclea can be philo-lace, with prefix philo as love, affection, and lace as a net, snare, or a fabric of silk. Philoclea is a maid whose affection is dimmed by lace-like snare. Following lines use this anagram

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Name Pattern in Arcadia Name pattern with a mixture of parallel and crossed lines. Cleophila and Philoclea In old Arcadia, prince Pyrocles changed his name to Cleophila to pursued Philoclea, an anagram to show his love. Pyrocles explained this name design: "As for my name it shall be Cleophila, turning Philoclea to myself, as my mind is wholly turned and transformed into her." This was

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Shake-scene Player, Shakespeare Scene Robert Greene (1558-1592) once used the term Shake-scene and Player to describe Shakespeare. Scene is something unreal, and Shake Player can spell Shakespeare. It's a wordplay saying that Shakespeare is a scene. Shake-scene player = Shakespeare scene A Woman Player's Hide Greene attacked Shakespeare by changing one word, Woman to Player, in "Tiger's

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Menalcas, one who ties the other with Manacles in a marriage The name Menalcas is selected due to its anagram manacles, a hint on other two names related to it, Colin and Rosalinde, that they should be treated with anagram too. Menalcas took away Colin's mistress Rosalinde. If Colin the shepherd can spell Philip Sidney, and mistress Rosalinde Mary Sidney, then Menalcas should be Mary's

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Wrenock = wrene-nook (a shelter for wantonness) The name Wrenock appears only once in the Calender and E. K. did not give any comment. It can only be solve from the lines by Colin Clout (Philip Sidney) around the name, which simplifies the question comparing to other names. Wrene is wanton (OED); nook, a secluded part of a country, region (OED 4). The key line is "Somedele ybent to song and

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To solve E. K. in The Shepheardes Calender, we should solve all 21 names in this book with the same logic. The easy one will be Menalcas as manacles, or Algrind as Grindal, a direct anagram. Each name in the Calender is based on a word that fit to its role, and supported by the role's description. Who is who may not be crucial, but how and why names are formed, since Shakespeare's works follow

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Lettice, Leicester, Queen Elizabeth, these three names appear in The Shepheardes Calender published in 1579 anonymously. In 1578, Lettice Knollys (1543-1634) secretly married to Robert Dudley (1532-1588), Earl of Leicester, who was adored by Queen Elizabeth. Lettice was then banished from court. Leicester's wife Amy Robsart died in 1560 (possibly murdered by Leicester so that he could woo the

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Ben Jonson was protected by the Herberts, who supported the Protestant. To Alchymists mocks at some people who boast and have the willing poverty living in themselves.             VI.        To Alchymists. IF all you boast of your great Art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you. • To Alchymists:: an anagram of Catholics. Jonson's comedy The Alchemist is a satire on the follies. •

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From Shakespeare to Mary Sidney William Herbert's Pyramid Emblem William Herbert has an emblem of a woman holding a pyramid in Peacham's Minerva Britanna. Besides that, pyramid also connects Shakespeare with Mary Sidney in sonnet 123, John Milton's On Shakespeare, and Joshua Sylvester's Pyramid anagram. The Peacham drawing links Henry Peacham with Titus Andronicus. It shows that Peacham

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( '.' ) and ( : ) are two marks in the dedication of the Shephearedes Calender and Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. First two pages of The Shepherd's Calendar, without author's name but a symbol of ('.') and Immeritô Logogriph a kind of enigma, in which a certain word, and other words that can be formed out of all or any of its letters, are to be guessed from synonyms of them introduced

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In The Chronicle History of King Leir (1605), the little daughter is called Cordella. In Shakespeare the two name are changed to Cordelia and Lear. Leir to Lear can avoid the anagram of Leir to lier, and gives Lear a better definition of instruction, learning. Cordelia can spell code liar. King Lear is projected as Mary Sidney (who wished to retire her venture), and Cordelia as Mary's creation

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Two Lines below the Chin The secret of William Shakespeare's picture is the engraver's name, Martin Droeshout, an anagram of Mary Sidney. To complete the name Mary Sidney Herbert, an additional B is needed. The collar shapes the missing B. This is to enhance the anagram, so that people would not think this anagram is just a coincidence. The collar shapes the missing B in the engraving of

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The Shepheardes Calender was first published Anonymously in 1579, and included in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen in 1611. Why Spenser didn't put his name from the beginning? Spenser wasn't the only one in creating the Calender. Philip and Mary Sidney was involved, hinted by anagrams and the symbol of three dots ('.'), or two eyes and a mouth. Colin as Philip Sidney, the Co-lin Shepheard In

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Thenot and Piers, Protestant Piers Catholic the-Knot  A Dialogue between Two Shepherds, Thenot and Piers, in Praise of Astrea by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, was prepared for Queen Elizabeth's visit at Wilton House in July 1599, but the trip was cancelled. Protestant, a hidden Title Thenot and Piers is used as the title for the poem accuses the a'strayed Catholic from Protestant's

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"That most Heroick spirit" is what Edmund Spenser praised Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. This sonnet treats Mary as a male, and the use of word resemblance, image, and token hint at Shakespeare her spirit. "That most Heroick spirit" is an anagram of Shakespeare. Spenser was in the Wilton House Circle and close to Philip Sidney. Poets of Wilton House practised the same anagrammatism, to seal

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In Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander (1598), Leander was taken by Neptune as Ganimed. The god of sea gave him a Helles bracelet so that Leander could free from drowning. This disobeys the original story that Leander drowned at the end. Marlowe's poem ends at Leander won Hero's heart. Ganimed Helles bracelet is an anagram of Mary Sidney Herbert. But when he knew it was not Ganimed, . . .

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Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella was first published in 1591. If he kept the same style of playing names as in The Lady of May, then the two names Astrophel and Stella must mean something decipherable with hints. It's best to check the 1591 facsimile. "Wherein the excellence of sweete Poesie is concluded." Poetry as Sidney's Love In the title Stella is printed like "STELL A" with a

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Philip Sidney promoted himself and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester in a masque before Queen Elizabeth. Sidney combined names related to that event with names of the main characters in the masque. The Lady of May was performed in Leicester's country house for Queen Elizabeth's visit in May 1578 or May 1579. Just in 1577, the marriage of Mary Sidney and Henry Herbert was arranged by Leicester and

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Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618) built a text altar or pillar to honor himself. The O and E are linked in the same position, a hint for anagram to link leading and ending letters. Like his pyramid riddle, anagrammatism in Elizabethan times has no fixed rules. Workes of Joshua Sylvester 1621 Folio YOUR   MAJESTIES Most loyal Subject & Humble Servant JOSUAH SYLVESTER Your Majesties and

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Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618) built a text pyramid to honor Mary Sidney with a graph anagram. Pyramid can spell Mary backward. "SYDNEY, that rare more-than-man, This Lovely Venus" hints at a woman. Workes of Joshua Sylvester, 1621 FolioHe "muddled" words inside the pyramid to emphasize SYDNEY. Anagram of "James Stuart" to A just Master. Workes of Joshua Sylvester 1621 Folio Ben Jonson

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Phoenix and Turtle talks about the love story of Queen Elizabeth and Robert Dudley, and the rumor of their illegitimate son Francis Bacon. (Part I) So they loved as love in twaine, [25] Had the essence but in one, Two distincts, Division none, Number there in love was slaine. [25] in twain:: in two, asunder (OED 2b). The asunder of the Queen and Leicester. [26] Had the essence but in one:: an

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Ben Jonson believed in miracles when he said "Sidney's name I hear." He heard "Mary calls" (=Miracles). Ben Jonson heard the call of Mary Sidney Epigrammes (1640)             CXIV.        To Mrs. Philip Sydney. [0] I Must beleeve some miracles still bee, [1]   When Sydnyes name I hear, or face I see: For Cupid, who (at first) took vaine delight, [3]   In meere out-formes, untill he

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Ben Jonson's muse had turned to support another worthless lord and left Jonson a new muse. The three identities are sealed by anagram and acrostic. Jonson's old muse was Mary Sidney, the new muse Mary Wroth, and the worthless lord Francis Bacon. Mary Sidney passed the control of the Wilton circle to Bacon (but later she took it back as in Francisco and Fortinbras). Bacon's name is hinted by

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To my Book, the second epigram in Jonson's Epigrammes. is a contribution to Mary Sidney Herbert, Wilton House. The name is sealed by a loose acrostic with letters from the first word of every line. (To my Book-seller.) Epigrammes by Ben Jonson                     II.                 To my Book. IT will be look'd for Book, when some but see   Thy title, Epigrammes, and nam'd of mee, Thou

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This epigram tells the methods used in Ben Jonson's Epigrammes, which is "against the manners of an Epigram." "Whose scattered names" says that names are hidden by anagrams "Rank, or title look" is to read with multiple definitions of a word, and to check title. Jonson admitted that he was a vicious poet, but not a king's whore herald. The next epigram To My Lord Ignorant is Jonson's

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The order of Jonson's epigrams is unusual, To King James in IIII and To My Lord Ignorant in X (two lines only). Jonson called King James an ignorant lord with the X.    I. To the Reader.   II. To my Book.  III. To my Book-seller. IIII. To King James.    V. On The Union.   VI. To Alchymists.  VII. On the New Hot-house. VIII. On A Robbery.   IX. To All, To Whom I Write.    X. To My Lord Ignorant.

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Wood: keys of a music instrument; the material of an idol. Jacks: pegs that pluck strings; common people. A simple view of virginal or harpsichord is needed to read sonnet 128. When a finger presses a key, it raises up a jack, and that jack (with a pin) will pluck a string. Jacks inside the virginal cannot be seen, so it's not possible for jacks to kiss a hand (in line five). This is one of the

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Anne Herbert (1583-1606?), Mary Sidney's daughter died at the age of 23, never married. Likely she was infected with syphilis from her mother. Mary left England to Spa in 1607, one year after her death. Anne's hate, not for her mother but father, the originator of her gentle doom, is placed in sonnet 145 because 145 coded ANE, a number anagram of Anne. Short code in Elizabethan times (I=J, U=V

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Women were not accepted on stage and not encouraged to write in Elizabethan days, so a talented woman would need some sweet skill to overcome that. - maiden gardens: undiscovered views by women. - painted counterfeit: men to play female roles on stage. - lines, pencil, pen: theme of this sonnet, play script.      16 But wherefore do not you a mightier way[1] Make war upon this bloody tyrant

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Ben Jonson used six lines to describe the Sweet Swan of Avon. Any solution to it must satisfy these lines. However, swan isn't his real aim, but Banks and James. Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James! But stay, I see thee in the Hemisphere Advanc'd, and made a

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Ben Jonson used some unusual phrases in praising Shakespeare, e.g., men's suffrage, crafty malice, baud or whore, moniment without a tomb, proof. They all mean something special, like moniment as muniment, proof as armor. "Some infamous Baud, or Whore, should praise a Matron," is about William Herbert and Mary Sidney. Jonson usually placed anagrams at the beginning. Here he made two. 1. He

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Part I (Part II) This poem has 68 lines without title and printed William Shake-speare at the end. It's a love story of two birds, a female phoenix and a male turtle dove. They failed to live together at the end. The first two lines seal the name of involved persons, which can explain some odd words used. This poem tells the story of Queen Elizabeth and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Their

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Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander (1598) contains an emblem of one marigold facing the Sun and another low lighted by five torches. They have the same root but separated by a ribbon, one in day and one at night. Marigold and Sunne can spell Mary Sidney; sun and sunne were equal in Elizabethan times. (In the First Folio, sunne appears 166 times, sun 70.) Marigold can spell Mary's name

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Ben Jonson's first epigram "To the Reader" has only two lines. The first line spells Mary Sidney Pembroke, the second line Wilton House. Jonson dedicated this book to her, or this was Mary's statement to the reader.                      I.                To the Reader PRay thee, take care, that tak'st my Book in hand, To read it well: that is, to understand. • hand:: art, skill. • understand:

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The critic is Michael Drayton, hinted by wordplay of his name, archangel and threaten, an angel with threatening criticism that makes people fear and fly. To traduce is to transfer his name to the archangel. Jonson assured his anagram by the content matched with the target. Drayton was Jonson's friend. Epigrammes (1640) This anagram by title with one letter missing is similar to Abraham

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Stuart and Stewart are synonyms. For Jonson, Stewart, or stew-art, is an art of stew. Stew can be a brothel (OED 4) or a heated room used for hot air baths (OED 3), a whore-house or a hot-house. Epigrammes (1640)                  VII.          On the New Hot-house. WHere lately harbourd many a famous whore, A purging bill, now fix'd upon the doore, Tels you it is a Hot-house: so it ma', And

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Jonson feared someone to be his foe. He showed his loyalty in a short epigram without name. Those who knew Jonson's style can read his intention. The title spells Mary Sidney, and more in following lines.  LXXVII. To One That Desired Me Not To Name Him. LXXVIII. To Hornet. Epigrammes (1640)                   LXXVII.         To One That Desired Me Not                To Name Him. BE

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"To Fine Grand" is Jonson's complaint to King James, who paid him 40 pounds per masque. Jonson asked for more (hinted in line 21). Epigrammes (1640) This epigram is suggested to be solved by anagram (line 16). Jonson itemized his masques for the king, which explains the words he used. He also listed King James' male lovers, a great epigram and risk.                    LXXIII.

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play: amorous disport; dalliance; sexual indulgence (OED 6c). wright: a carpenter (OED 3); a handicraftsman. Ben Jonson coined the word play-wright and titled three epigrams with it to accuse Christopher Marlowe. Wright hints at Christ (carpenter) with Christ-bearer as Christopher; Marlowe is close to mar-low (play). The name Christopher Marlowe can spell play-wright except g.  For play-wright

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Casket inscriptions are repeated three times in the play, a hint to treat them with care. The verb is the key. Inscription of gold silver lead use, shall shall must, and gain get give. The third pair of verbs, must give, already reveals the answer. Who chooseth me, shall gain what men desire. Who chooseth me, shall get as much as he deserves. Who chooseth me, must give and hazard all he hath.

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Sweet Companion, Swallow Hear John Davies (1569-1626) was connected with Wilton House and Christopher Marlowe. In his Orchestra (1596), he wrote "sweet Companion" as a shadow that sang "under a shadow"; and Davies wished the two "shadows to relate." It's similar to marigold emblem in Marlowe's Hero and Leander, that Marlowe wished to relate himself with Mary Sidney. The first shadow, "sweet

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Ben Jonson's signature in Shakespeare epitaph Forbear is to have patience. Spare is to free this riddle epitaph. Good friend for Jesus sake forbear, to dig the dust enclosed here! Blessed be ye man that spares these stones, and cursed be he that moves my bones[!] "Good reader, for Jesus sake have patience to study the confusion enclosed here! You're blessed to free the stoned truth, and

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The 1632 Folio includes an eulogy written by I. M. S., whose identity has not been assured. It's close to the I. P. S. M. in Shakespeare monument. If we follow the same logic there, I. M. S. can be "I, Mary Sidney." Mary Sidney Wroth (1587-1651?) married to Robert Wroth in 1604, widowed in 1614. She was Mary Sidney Herbert's niece. Both the beginning and end of this eulogy contain anagrams for

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Identities of the two loves can be found if the author wants to tell us. Anagram works here consistently for Wilton House circle. Every line matches with the relationship of the three: – I: Christopher Marlowe who must keep still after 1593. – man right fair: Shakespeare, the man Marlowe wrote under his name. – woman coloured ill: Mary Sidney, a lady in the dark who owned Marlowe and Shakespeare

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Philip Sidney An anagram without confirmation is useless in passing information. Authors knew that. The old Arcadia contains the most direct one, since it simply tells us how anagram is done. "As for my name it shall be Cleophila, turning Philoclea to myself, as my mind is wholly turned and transformed into her." But that happened only once. Other anagrams in the old Arcadia follow the same

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Pyramid Emblem Pyramid used by Mary Sidney was known by poets relating to Wilton House, like Joshua Sylvester, or Henry Percham who knew the secret, because it can spell Mary backward as p-yram-id. Anagrams can obscure one's intention and reveal to those who know them. They may be used quite often in Elizabethan times only if we can find them; e.g., the Meridianis by Michael Drayton was

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Thumb Wracked A letter T (Tyburn, to burn the Thumb probably as T-y'burn) branded in a felon's thumb in Elizabethan times, no mercy next time. Christopher Marlowe wracked in 1593 "A Pilot's Thumb, Wracked' can spell Christopher Marlowe, the pilot in Macbeth, or a pilot in drama from Marlowe's view. Marlowe worked day and night writing for Wilton House, like the sailor drained by the witch.

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Rape of Lucrece, Shakespeare's second long poem contains total 265 stanzas, seven lines per stanza. It can be deciphered by selecting line 2, 5, 6 of each stanza, similar to Venus and Adonis' every even line. It's hinted by the stanza count (265 for line 2, 5, 6) and its dedication, without beginning line one, and without end line seven: The love I dedicate to your lordship is without end:

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Common view of the three apparitions in Macbeth: • Armed Head – Macbeth's own head cut off by Macduff. (However, Macbeth did not die on stage, no audience would know if the head really belonged to Macbeth.) • Bloody Child – Macduff who was untimely ripped (Caesarean section) to vanquish Macbeth. • Crowned Child with Tree in hand – Malcolm with tree of Birnam Wood. Same visions as Christopher

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Ducdame repeated three times hints at three wordplays. Many combinations exist to match its sound, like dark-dame; however, if that was the author's intention, they should match with the context, e.g., dock-damn with "rail against all the first born of Egypt." 1. Dark-dame A dark, mystic lady, constructed by "a stubborn will to please, Ducdame, Here," which spells Mary Sidney Herbert, Wilton

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The scene Prince Henry beckoning Francis repeatedly is a mock on Francis Bacon (beckon), his often reply of "but Anon" without result, and his Tale related to Robert Dudley and Queen Elizabeth. PRINCE HENRY: while I question my puny Drawer,  [1] to what end he gave me the Sugar, and do never leave calling Francis, that his Tale to me may be nothing but, Anon: [4] step aside, and I'll show thee

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Repetition to Hint Birnam and Dunsinane appear five times in the play, in the form of Birnam Wood, Birnam Forest, Dunsinane Hill, or just Dunsinane. Why Macbeth must be "vanquished" when Birnam comes to Dunsinane? Great Birnam Wood, to high Dunsinane Hill Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, Till Birnam Forest come to Dunsinane. Fear not, till Birnam Wood Do come to Dunsinane, Though Birnam

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"The First Heir of My Invention" The beginning of Shakespeare is Venus and Adonis, romantic and simple, except that half of the poem mourns for Adonis' death. If Shakespeare contains any code or cipher, it must begin with this long poem. Read Even Line Philip Sidney mentioned Virgilian lottery in his Defence of Poesie, "the word of Sortes Vergilianae," as a reading by selecting lines from

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In Macbeth, Hecate is the Mistress of the three witches who manipulate Macbeth's fate. Hecate is projected as Mary Sidney the patroness of Wilton House. The three witches are playwrights worked for her. HECATE: And I the Mistress of your Charms, The close contriver of all harms, Was never called to bear my part, Or show the glory of our Art? Mary Sidney, the mistress of all witches' charms

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Brilliant authors will leave enough clues for their difficult words. Readers need an unorthodox mind. M. O. A. I. Quinapalus A Table of green fields Peter Quince the Carpenter Cobweb, Pease-blossom, Mustard-seed Concolinel Camel, Weasel, Whale Othello's Double Time Siren Tears Phoenix and Turtle Notes and Garments and more.

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Shakespeare is designed to be read by anagrams. They appear in the proper places; e.g. in sonnet 18, "the darling buds of May" can spell Mary Sidney Herbert. May has the definition of "a maiden, virgin" (OED n.1). Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And Summer's lease hath all too short a date: • winds:: twists; • buds:: things to flourish in the future, in Spring. • buds of May

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Roles on the stage are like plants cultivated by playwrights, who use plays to fight against the authority. Censor may take away roles, but playwrights can create more. - stage, shows: theme of this sonnet. - men as plants increase: roles created by playwrights. - ingraft you new: to create new roles. - self-same sky: the canopy of a theater shared by actors.      15 When I consider everything

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In The Merchant of Venice, Portia's "the lottery of my destiny" has several possible origins. The major difference between the Merchant and other stories is, others had no repetition in the same test, but the suitors of Portia failed eight times continuously to select the right one from the gold, silver, or lead casket. The use of gold, silver, lead is unique to other stories. They match well

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Lady of Belmonte (as Portia) cheated her pursuers by "drugged" them. Giannetto (as Bassanio) won the game by the warning of a waiting-woman, "Make a show of drinking the wine, but taste it not." Belmonte is spelled Belmont (without e) in Shakespeare, most likely the town Belmonte Calabro in the coast of southern Italy. It was called simply Belmonte before the 19th century. The Pecorone of Ser

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Siren tears, charming and deadly drops, are quicksilver used to cure syphilis. This sonnet describes Mary Sidney's illness and the effect of the quicksilver. Mercury was used to cure syphilis since the 15th century.  Siren tears function like an imaginary serpent in one's body and tearing from inside.      119 What potions have I drunk of Siren tears [1] Distilled from Limbecks foul as hell

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Dispense: to make a special arrangement (with any one) whereby the penalty of a law is remitted in his case" (OED v. 4, 1555). Christopher Marlowe was saved by Mary Sidney by a "special arrangement." He was isolated by Mary and worked to seal her secret in plays.      112 Your love and pity doth the impression fill, [1] Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow, For what care I who calls me

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Sortes Virgilianae (Virgilian lottery) is a reading by extracting lines from existing text, an invention with lines amiss, hinted by brains beguiled, composed wonder, and antique book. Philip Sidney in the Defence of Poesie mentioned this skill: "Whereupon grew the word of Sortes Vergilianae." - invention: a new reading skill; "the first heir of my invention" in Venus and Adonis. - amiss: it

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"And" is used ten times at the beginning, a hint to treat these eleven lines in one sentence the same logic. They are enclosed by "Tired with all these" in line one and thirteen. Each line or role's key word describes Marlowe's life after his fake death: beggar2, trimmed3, forsworn4, misplaced5, strumpeted6, disgraced7, disabled,8 tongue-tied9, Folly10, miscalled11, ill12.      66 Tired with

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Sonnet 129's first twelve lines map to twelve plays. It's riddled for those who read Shakespeare well. These plays must be available before 1609. The last two lines say that Shakespeare's plays are shunned. This solution fits to the dark lady sonnets, 127 Raven Black and 128 Saucy Jacks.  It's not about sex, but a summary of Shakespeare's plays, each in one line. • Savage, extreme, rude, cruel,

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Half of Jonson's To the Reader is about Martin Droeshout the graver. Pronoun is the key to solve this text, by finding each he or his to replace Shakespeare or the Graver. Besides that, few words' second usage can alter the reading. The word brass appears twice with different meanings to guide two readings. brass: bronze plate – coin, money drawn: sketched (on plate) – plucked (money) gentle:

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Philomela's quire (in stanza 77): Philomela wove her sad story in a tapestry that only her sister can read. Ghost of Lucrece (1600) by Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) followed The Rape of Lucrece (1594) to comment the revenge of Mary Sidney, the ghost after her infection of syphilis from husband Henry Herbert. The description of rape and venereal disease can be similar, but there are words fit

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Rape of Lucrece is designed to be read by selecting line 2, 5, 6 from its 265 stanzas. It's the story of Mary Sidney's infection of syphilis from her husband, a kind of rape. The reading method is hinted in the dedication and the stanza count. It's the second Virgilian Lottery read after Venus and Adonis. 1. Dedication of Lucrece. It hints us to ignore the first and last line. The love I

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Venus and Adonis is designed to be read by Even line, the first try of Virgilian Lottery, like "the first heir of my invention prove deformed" in its dedication. The poem talks about Venus' love to Adonis, his love of hunting, death, and her mourn. This story fits Philip Sidney's death in the battlefield and Mary Sidney's mourn, which can be transferred smoothly via an even line reading. Philip

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Who has done what is the purpose of Shakespeare anagrams. "Let the bird of loudest lay" is the first line in the Phoenix and Turtle. It's an anagram of Elisabeth and Robert Dudley, and the poem is about their rumored love. There are many more examples. Queen Elizabeth is the Phoenix, and Robert Dudley the Turtle Thomas Middleton Thomas Middleton's The World Tost at Tennis (1620)

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Repetition of Rape and Murder Chiron and Demetrius are called rape and murder six times in the play. Repetition usually hints something in Shakespeare. Rape and Murder, therefore called so. The one is Murder, Rape is the other's name. So thou destroy Rapine and Murder there. Lo by thy side where Rape and Murder stands, Where bloody Murther or detested Rape, Rapine and Murther, you are

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Sonnets' art of astronomy is to treat the dedication's 154 characters as 154 stars, and to form names as in a star chart, a kind of graphic anagram. Ten names related to Wilton House can be formed, each with its own area in the dedication. Mary's children are sealed inward, andWilton House poets outward. - I have Astronomy: Mary Sidney controls her own fate. - constant stars, art: the art

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Sonnet 72 and 24 are about how to read the Sonnets' dedication. • seem false in this: to avoid misreading. • My name be buried where my body is: Mary Sidney's name is buried in the dedication.      72 O Least the world should task you to recite,[1] What merit lived in me that you should love After my death (dear love) forget me quite, For you in me can nothing worthy prove. [1] you to recite

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Sonnet 24 tells us how to read the Sonnets' dedication as a graph, hinted by words like perspective, image, picture, shape, frame, and painter's art (not writer's art). My name be buried where my body is (sonnet 72) my body is the frame • perspective: to view the dedication text as an image. • true Image: a hint that the text is truly an image. • my body is the frame: Mary Sidney Herbert

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Sonnet 127 is about dark plays by a dark with dark mind and identity, not black complexion. The lady wasn't dark by nature but like the raven blackened by Apollo for the bird told bad news. "Notwithstanding those miracles of the white raven in the clouds;" — Four Letters and Certain Sonnets, Robert Greene (1592). The dark lady was nothing black except her deeds, which are recorded in sonnet 129,

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Dark complexion can be a beauty, but not for bad voice and smell. "False compare" is the key to solve this sonnet. Compare means both compeer and comparison. False compare hints at the misleading comparison, and "she belied with false compare" indicates a lady in the dark beguiled the world with a false compeer. • eyes (unlike sun): views, not shining as the orthodoxy. • lips (not red): words,

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Sonnet 18 praises Mary Sidney's art of writing. • Lease: pasture; pasturage; meadow-land (OED n.1); a lease of the name Shakespeare. • the eye of heaven:  the censorship of the Catholic.• fair from fair: wonderful (fair) play from a public place (fair), subject of this sonnet. • lose possession of that fair: to lose the authorship of Mary's fair works. • men can breathe, eyes can see: people

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Viola and Olivia, most people will think the two names are related to anagram, and it's a hint to treat the other names the similar way. Wilton House Mark in the Title The original print of Twelfth Night is Twelse Night, Or what you will. The full title carries the mark of Wilton House. Steward Malvolio Malvolio, the steward of countess Olivia, is a projection of Edward de Vere who

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Valentine would propose to give his lover Sylvia to Protheus, is absurd. However, like outlaws would elect Valentine to be their leader, there's reason behind. Description of a role in Shakespeare is often used to seal a name. In The Two Gentlemen of Verona, two roles are used to name one person: • Valentine, Sylvia – Mary Sidney, who won Shakespeare at the end. • Protheus, Thurio – Edward de

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The Two Gentlemen of Verona may be Shakespeare's first play, but minor changes are possible any time before 1623; the play has no quarto before the First Folio. It is placed the second in the folio. If The Tempest concludes Shakespeare, then Two Gentlemen would be the beginning, for those outlaws were pardoned by the duke, form a group to "fit for great employment." The play's first line

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Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking records how Mary Sidney speaks Shakespeare. She speaks Shakespeare. Lady Macbeth is projected as Mary Sidney, who wrote plays in the dark and sealed them to protect her identity. The doctor was listing down the word of Lady Macbeth in her sleepwalking. GENTLEWOMAN: unlock her Closet, take forth paper, fold it, write upon it, read it, afterwards Seal it, and again

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In A Midsummer's Night's Dream, all mechanicals are playwrights, and all fairies are nobles, linked by Nick Bottom as Christopher Marlowe. NICK BOTTOM: I cry your worships mercy heartily; I beseech your worship's name. COBWEB: Cobweb. Christopher Marlowe as Nick Bottom 1. Cobweb – William Cecil, Baron Burthley (1521-1598) COBWEB: Cobweb. NICK BOTTOM: I shall desire you of more

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Complex names and professions are assigned to the craftsmen in A Midsummer Night's Dream. They are the rude mechanicals, playwrights serving the Wilton House. All fairies are nobles. NAME PROFESSION ORIGINAL ASSIGNMENT ROLE IN PLAY 1 Robin Starveling Tailor Thisby's mother Moonshine* 2 Tom Snout Tinker Pyramus' father Wall* 3 Francis Flute Bellows-mender Thisby Thisby 4 Snug Joiner Lion

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Claudius challenged Hamlet by calling him cousin (cozen) to see if Hamlet can figure out his name, Claudius as cloud-dears. Hamlet gave the right answer cunningly, "A little more than kin, and less than kind." Claudius then affirmed with "Clouds still hang on you." CLAUDIUS: But now my Cousin Hamlet, and my Son? [1] HAMLET: A little more than kin, and less than kind. [2] CLAUDIUS: How is it

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In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hermia and Lysander can derive Mary Sidney and Henry Herbert. What about Helena and Demetrius? Demetrius once "made love" to Helena and abandoned her. Edward de Vere did the same to Anne Vavasour. This anagram is clean and rare, for it spells only their names. Helena accused Demetrius. HELENA: A trim exploit, a manly enterprise, To conjure tears up in a poor maid's

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Polonius is projected as William Herbert by anagram and sound play. It can explain odd words like thick Amber, Plum-tree Gum, weak Hams. It's part of the triple wordplay "Words, words, words." HAMLET: Slanders, Sir: for the Satyrical slave says here, that old men have gray Beards; [1] that their faces are wrinkled; [2] their eyes purging thick Amber, or Plum-Tree Gum: [3] and that they have a

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Kent was Lear's physician, a relationship like Dr. Matthew Lister to Mary Sidney. Lister attended Mary till she died of smallpox. Syphilis was called pox in Elizabethan times. Lister kept Mary's secret, as Kent and King Lear. KING LEAR: How old art thou? KENT: Not so young, Sir, to love a woman for singing,[1] nor so old to dote on her for anything. I have years on my back forty eight.[2]

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About Francis Bacon and Mary Sidney, please check the Francisco and Fortinbras. Most of the last stage directions have only one or two words, but the 1623 Hamlet is longer. There is no direction in the 1603 Quarto. 1603 [ ] 1605 [Exeunt.] 1623 [Exeunt Marching: after the which, a Peal of Ordnance are shot off.] Mary Sidney's retirement freed Christopher Marlowe Peal of Ordnance is a sound

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Mary Sidney as Armado Concolinel is a made-up word in Shakespeare. From the context, it can be sound played to concord-lineal, harmony of the heir. We can then derive names of the lineal by anagram, and they match with all Mary Sidney's children. Armado projects Mary Sidney, as the king called him, "my minstrelsy." ARMADO: Warble child, make passionate my sense of hearing. [1] MOTH:

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In the induction of The Taming of the Shrew, all the lord's hounds have names except the lord himself. It records how Mary Sidney (the lord) and her Wilton House playwrights (hounds) saved Christopher Marlowe (Christopher Sly). Sly's wife Bartholmew can spell Marlowe, which completes his name. Back from hunting, an unnamed lord told his huntsman, "I charge thee, tender well my hounds." The lord

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The name Emilia or Æmilia appears three times in Shakespeare. Emilia Bassano Lanyer (1569–1645) praised Mary Sidney in her Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (with total 230 lines) published in 1611. Emilia in Othello Description of Emilia in the play fits Emilia Lanyer's life, about her husband Alfonso Lanyer a court musician, and her lover Henry Carey, Baron Hunsdon (1526-1596), who was once the patron

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The first word of the First Folio is an anagram of Ben Jonson. Boatswain is the chief seaman on a ship, not a master. In the beginning of the Folio, Mary Sidney, Jonson's master, asked him to speak to the Wilton House playwrights to "fall to it," else they would be in trouble. MASTER: Bote-swain. BOATSWAIN: Here Master: What cheer? MASTER: Good: Speak to the Mariners: fall to it, yarely, [

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Lord of Beasts Hamlet called Osricke the "Lord of Beasts." It spells Earl of Dorset.  Thomas Sackville (1536-1608) was created Baron Buckhurst in 1567, and Earl of Dorset in 1604. The name Osricke is not included in 1603 quarto of Hamlet, but 1605. "Lord of Beasts" and "it's a vice to know him" can spell fully Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset. Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset, the Lord of

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IAGO:There are many Events in the Womb of Time,which will be delivered. Othello's "Womb of Time" keeps two time systems in a play, one faster and one slower, a double-time scheme described by Iago as to "watch the Horologe a double Set." Othello is one of the few plays dominated by Marlowe, so he could have the freedom to play the script. Most plays in the 1623 Folio were written by other

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POLONIUSL: Though this be madness, Yet there is Method in it. Hamlet's madness tells the method in reading Shakespeare: 1. multiple usages: hide meaing "to conceal" and "the skin or fur." 2. sound play: son, sun, and sound. 3. abridgement: North-west Passage to North-west. 4. anagram: difference of Camel, Weasel, and Whale against Hamlet. 1. Multiple Usages — Hide Fox, and all after

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Thomas Middleton was said to be the co-author of Macbeth and Timon of Athens. "What bloody man is that?" is the first line of Macbeth after the scene of the three witches. The bloody captain has no name but many lines. He is one of the members in the battlefield report of Macbeth. DUNCAN: What bloody man is that? he can report, [1] As seems by his plight, of the Revolt [2] The newest state. [3

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