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A true story! Actual hidden codes reveal an astonishing story, all within the works of Shakespeare! The book reads like a Shakespearean tale complete with mystery, villains, false identities, foiled fates and star-crossed lovers.
1623, October: Sir Francis Bacon introduces a new and ingenious method of writing in code.
1623, November: Shakespeare First Folio is published, filled with coded messages.
Late 1800's: Dr. Owen memorizes the entire works of Shakespeare, begins to unravel the mystery!
2006, October: Decoded segments speak to our time of a golden age and time of enlightenment.
An exciting story of the discarded prince Sir Francis Bacon who hid his truth in code and about the brilliant young physician who proved the codes existed 250 years later by building a cipher wheel according to decoded instructions in the Shakespeare plays.
For over 250 years the codes remained undiscovered until the late 1800's when a brilliant young surgeon revealed their secrets to the scorn and ridicule of clergy and the press. Yet his method and his fascinating device led to the astounding conversion of many ardent detractors.
Period enthusiasts and general public have long been intrigued by the controversy, deception and lure that surround Elizabethan England and the true authorship of the works of Shakespeare. Today numerous television programs, documentaries and commercial films focus on this era with growing interest.
Author Virginia Fellows writes as a masterful sleuth and reports the chronology of her adventures in a captivating voice that will hold a reader to the end. She includes all sides of the story and yet her delightful tone and gracious attunement for this period brings the drama to life.
The power of her story lies in an actual device created by young Dr. Orville Owen. He was a busy and successful physician who memorized the entire works of Shakespeare as a way to clear his mind between difficult cases. He began to see patterns and gradually deciphered layers of code, which guided him to build a one-of-a-kind cipher wheel. Author Fellows found the 100-year-old contraption in a run-down old warehouse in Detroit, Michigan.
Curators recently unraveled the wheel to check its condition.
Fellows bequeathed the cipher wheel to her publisher before she passed on in 2006. In so doing she left the world an amazing ability to literally look back in time and see things as they really were in 1600 England. In her book, Fellows shows that Owens built the contraption exactly as Sir Francis Bacon instructed in code:
The easiest way to carry on the work is to
Take your knife and cut all our books asunder,
And set the leaves on a great firm wheel
Which rolls and rolls.
The deciphered messages reported in The Shakespeare Code offer an unsettling revision of history and proof of hidden agendas and secret lives. It tells the true story of Elizabeth the “Virgin Queen” and her hidden marriage, murder and scandal, corruption and lies at the highest levels as seen by one who saw it first hand, Sir Francis Bacon.
Much is known about Bacon. He laid philosophical foundations for the scientific revolution; he was a visionary and a poet. He walked the corridors of power and held the highest offices in the land. But not until now has the real truth of his time been revealed.
The cipher story shows that Bacon could also see the future. He speaks directly to the unknown decoder who would eventually reveal his hidden messages and he tells of a bright future for mankind.
| “To write with powerful effect, he must write out the life he has led– as did Bacon when he wrote Shakespeare.” -- Mark Twain |
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