Category: Tudor History

Shakespeare’s Codename

I strongly suspect that the surname “SHAKE-SPEARE” is a deliberate attempt at numerological precedence or numerical encoding especially when diagrammatically represented as a coded crossword.

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Henry Vth

Literary sources for this history play include Raphael Holinshed (c. 1528-c. 1580) who wrote; “The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland” (2nd ed., 1587) as

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Henry VIIIth (1586)

The play “Henry VIIIth” or as it was originally entitled “All Is True” is actually one of Shakespeare’s earliest historical dramas derived largely from Holinshed’s

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Henry VIth Part One

The fact that Shakespeare’s history play, Henry VIth Part One was never registered at the Stationer’s Office is partially overlooked by academics. A good deal

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Henry VIth Part Two

Henry VIth Part Two is presumed to have been written from 1587-92 and registered at the Stationer’s Office 12th of March, 1594 (Q1), with the

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Henry VIth Part Three

Henry VIth Part 3 was probably written as early as 1592 or even earlier employing Raphael Holinshed’s and Edward Hall’s “Chronicles of England, Scotland &

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The Droeshout Portrait:

If one examines the first engraving presented of the portrait of William Shakespeare in the 1623 Folio publication of plays one will note there are

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The Missing Pieces in the Jigsaw

I have already written at length highlighting the numerous anomalies that would undermine the notion that the jobbing actor, William Shagspere of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the

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