Shakespeare Anagram: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Sunday, May 18th, 2008Have 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.