Shakespeare

Memo to Joseph Sobran and Tom Bethell

I’ve wish-listed this new book on Shakespeare: Despite the failure of early cipher-hunters such as Owen, Elizabeth Wells Gallup and Ignatius Donnelly to find anything meaningful, the idea that Shakespearean texts contain coded messages of authorship remains central. The Sonnets, with their apparently confiding, first-person voice, have proved fertile ground. Oxfordians find anagrams of “Vere”… Continue reading Memo to Joseph Sobran and Tom Bethell