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Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? Many people doubt that, for various reasons, the most obvious being that a player barely read and write to the sleepy village of Stratford-upon-Avon could not have written such precision and knowledge of many scenes in games that use of conventional or the splendor of the nobility and the royal courts. In addition, none of the manuscripts of Shakespeare has never been found, and only six signatures Shakespeare are known. The signatures all look different and look like they were written by a man who has not been used to hold a pencil. Some speculate that the hands of others have guided his own as he wrote.

If someone other than William Shakespeare wrote plays and poems published under his name, who it was? And the secret clues as to insert author's true identity in his work? These are two separate issues, and one does not necessarily imply the other. Various bright Elizabethans were defended as the true author simply based on their literary qualities, their educational backgrounds and social, and plausible reasons to want to hide their authors, among them Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ; Roger Manners, Earl of Rutland and William Stanley, Earl of Derby, and Sir Francis Bacon.

In recent centuries, few people in the old and the new world began as the search for hidden messages in the works of Shakespeare would be of such copyright. Anagrams, acrostics, word counts, string encryption, numbers letter, they have all been found. But are they all for real?

Anyone interested in the figures, which have been found in the works of Shakespeare should read the figures Asked by William Shakespeare and Elizebeth Friedman. This well-documented book of 1957 is exhausted, but copies can be found in libraries or on the Internet. Mr. Friedman, a professional cryptographer who helped decode the Enigma cipher tempting occupied by the Nazis during the Second World War has been called one of the foremost cryptographers America.

The investigation Friedmans dozens of figures that have been discovered in the works of Shakespeare and analyzed according to professional criteria of what constitutes a valid number. It is fair to say that in the process, few applications for different encryption stood. One of the best known efforts, they have shown are not correct, is that by Ignatius Donnelly. Donnelly, a lawyer and politician, published the cryptogram Great in the late 1880s. It revealed a complex mathematical and very impressive "number of roots," multipliers "and" modifiers "that produces messages such as" ... as below] [Marlowe or spur Shak'st [Shakespeare] never wrote a word of them. "The sequence of numbers to identify the word" More "on this page has given such as the following: the number of roots [] = 516-16 349-22b & h = 327-254 = 73 & h =-15b 58. 448-58 = 390 +1 = 391.

However impressive Donnelly mathematical sequences, some who have tried to replicate his efforts came with surprising results. The Friedmans include a Rev A. Nicholson, who took the same text passages Donnelly began to leave and, beginning with the number of the same root and using the same method complex, came with a message from him: "Master I am [William] Shak'st Spurr [Shakespeare] short game and was committed to the curtain. "Thus, the subjective nature of the rendering system disabled.

The Friedmans devote much of their book to the encryption algorithm bi-literal discovered by Mrs. Elizabeth Wells Gallup, who believed that Francis Bacon was the true author of Shakespeare's works. This part is particularly fascinating because the Friedmans themselves worked for Ms. Gallup for many years. Once the work of decoding Ms. Gallup has gained notoriety, it attracted a benefactor, Colonel Fabian, who was then working.