Shakespeare Anagram: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Have you ever wondered about those “other” plays mentioned in the last act of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the options that Theseus doesn’t choose? The titles seem kind of random and nonsensical. Could they actually be anagrams of hidden messages? You be the judge.
From A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
The battle with the Centaurs, to be sung
By an Athenian eunuch to the harp.
Shift around the letters, and it becomes:
Want the authentic truth?
Bacon’s the genuine author beneath the plays.- B.
From A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
The riot of the tipsy Bacchanals,
Tearing the Thracian singer in their rage.
Shift around the letters, and it becomes:
Get it right.
I, Sir Francis Bacon, create entertaining theatre plays.
Hah! Hoh!
From A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
The thrice three Muses mourning for the death
Of Learning, late deceas’d in beggary.
Shift around the letters, and it becomes:
Go get the true author. I feel I’m he.
Sir Francis Bacon engendered the lengthy dramas.
Let the games begin!
UPDATE: And what of the title of the play that Theseus did choose?
From A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus
And his love Thisbe; very tragical mirth.
Shift around the letters, and it becomes:
Vet the author of the plays.
I am. Sir Francis Bacon.
You disbelieved my genius. Grr.
UPDATE II: A clarification anagram.
May 18th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Consider me convinced. Maybe it’s time to change your page to the Bacon Teacher. You should expect to get frequent visits from breakfast fans.
May 18th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Mmmmm, bacon…
May 18th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Do you do this naturally or are there chemical stimulants?
Nothing but impressed at the flexibility of your mind:
Especially like the 3 3 Muses!
Now you’ve had your bacon for breakfast – visit Oxford?
May 19th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Thanks! Does Red Bull count as a chemical stimulant?
Doing Oxford might be tricky. Think about it: why would Bacon have left clues about Oxford in Shakespeare’s plays?