KUKU

KU ScholarWorks

  • myKU
  • Email
  • Enroll & Pay
  • KU Directory
    • Login
    View Item 
    •   KU ScholarWorks
    • Chemistry
    • Chemistry Scholarly Works
    • View Item
    •   KU ScholarWorks
    • Chemistry
    • Chemistry Scholarly Works
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Encrypted testimony of Ben Jonson and his contemporaries for who “William Shakespeare” really was

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    Journal Cover (263.5Kb)
    Journal article (952.6Kb)
    Title page with permissions (46.01Kb)
    Issue Date
    2009-11
    Author
    Burgstahler, Albert W.
    Publisher
    Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, Shanxi, China
    Type
    Article
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    Concealed messages in three authentic Early Modern English sources reveal that Ben Jonson and his contemporaries recognized “William Shakespeare” was a pen name of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604). This view is supported and augmented by new, wide-ranging cryptographic testimonial evidence based on a rigorous extension of incomplete and inexact earlier findings of U.S. Patent attorney Ralph L. Tweedale (1904–1977). Compared with their significantly lower occurrence in appropriate controls, the name-identifying block-initials EO or EOX (for Edward Oxenford or the Earl of Oxford) formed by the intersection of diagonal alignments of the letters of his name V-e-r-e or E-v-e-r (with Elizabethan era spelling variants of them) over four consecutive lines of print have been found in more than a dozen poetical tributes to “Shakespeare.” This same two-stage acrostic monogram identity device is also abundant in poetry reliably attributed to Lord Oxford as well as in poems he evidently wrote anonymously or under various pseudonyms, including the name “William Shakespeare.” By contrast, it is much less often present (by accident) in poems not written by him and in poems not written about or in tribute to him by others.
    Description
    Files include journal cover, cover page and article
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5891
    Collections
    • Chemistry Scholarly Works [600]
    • English Scholarly Works [308]
    Citation
    Burgstahler, Albert W. Encrypted testimony of Ben Jonson and his contemporaries for who “William Shakespeare” really was. INTERNATIONAL AND ACADEMICIAN FORUM OF SHANXI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY CENTENNIAL [2007]. November 2009: 57-78.

    Items in KU ScholarWorks are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.


    We want to hear from you! Please share your stories about how Open Access to this item benefits YOU.


    Contact KU ScholarWorks
    785-864-8983
    KU Libraries
    1425 Jayhawk Blvd
    Lawrence, KS 66045
    785-864-8983

    KU Libraries
    1425 Jayhawk Blvd
    Lawrence, KS 66045
    Image Credits
     

     

    Browse

    All of KU ScholarWorksCommunities & CollectionsThis Collection

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    Statistics

    View Usage Statistics

    Contact KU ScholarWorks
    785-864-8983
    KU Libraries
    1425 Jayhawk Blvd
    Lawrence, KS 66045
    785-864-8983

    KU Libraries
    1425 Jayhawk Blvd
    Lawrence, KS 66045
    Image Credits
     

     

    The University of Kansas
      Contact KU ScholarWorks
    Lawrence, KS | Maps
     
    • Academics
    • Admission
    • Alumni
    • Athletics
    • Campuses
    • Giving
    • Jobs

    The University of Kansas prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, age, ancestry, disability, status as a veteran, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, gender identity, gender expression and genetic information in the University’s programs and activities. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies: Director of the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access, IOA@ku.edu, 1246 W. Campus Road, Room 153A, Lawrence, KS, 66045, (785)864-6414, 711 TTY.

     Contact KU
    Lawrence, KS | Maps