Description
Book SynopsisIn this 1957 book, the authors address theories, which, through the identification of hidden codes, call the authorship of Shakespeare's plays into question. This book will interest scholars of literary codes and cryptography, as well as those wishing to discover more about the various debates surrounding the authorship of Shakespeare's plays.
Table of ContentsPreface; List of illustrations; Introduction; 1. The great controversy; 2. Cryptology as a science; 3. Ignatius Donnelly and the The Great Cryptogram; 4. The cipher in the epitaph; 5. Dr Owen and his Word Cipher; 6. A miscellany; 7. Acrostics and anagrams; 8. The long word and other anagrams; 9. The String Cipher of William Stone Booth; 10. Walter Conrad Arensberg; 11. The strange story of Dr Cunningham and Maria Bauer; 12. Odd numbers; 13. The Biliteral Cipher and Elizabeth Wells Gallup; 14. Mrs Gallup and Colonel Fabyan; 15. Elizabethan printing and its bearing on the Biliteral Cipher; 16. A study of the Gallup decipherments; 17. General Cartier and the Biliteral Cipher; 18. The Biliteral Cipher: experiments and deductions; 19. Conclusion; Index.
