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NEW BOOK BY A PHOENIX Francis Bacon’s Extensive Revisions: The 1619 Pavier/Jaggard Quartos and Thousands of Authorial Amendments to the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio (Shakspere d. 1616; Oxford d. 1604) Variances in Shakespeare Quarto and First Folio Editions See PDF below: VARIANCE CHART QUARTOS AND FIRST FOLIO.pdf

NEW BOOK BY A PHOENIX Francis Bacon’s Extensive Revisions: The 1619 Pavier/Jaggard Quartos and Thousands of Authorial Amendments to the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio (Shakspere d. 1616; Oxford d. 1604) The very suggestion that the important amendments, revisions, corrections and improvements concerning the dramatic action, stagecraft, metre, verse, language and style in the First Folio were executed by a combination of the printer, anonymous compositors and correctors or some unknown editor is simply absurd. Not only would these imagined individuals needed to have been classical scholars & linguists with some knowledge of foreign languages Latin, Italian, and French, they would have had to possess a sophisticated comprehension of English grammar and syntax. They would also have needed to possess a practiced and superior literary skill to write and rewrite lines and exercise stylistic preferences. The printer, compositors, correctors, or the editor (or any combination thereof) would also have needed to have been seasoned poets and dramatists and have professional and practical experience of the theatre to equip them with the knowledge and skills to change the dramatic structure, introduce various stage-directions, and changes and alterations in intricate and complicated dialogue. Perhaps most importantly, the revisions, corrections and improvements required the unnamed and unidentified individuals to inhabit the very structure and architecture of the plays, as well as possess a deep knowledge and understanding of their multi-layered complexities, nuances and meaning, something which battalions of Shakespeare scholars have not managed to achieve in the last four hundred years. The kind of profound multi-faceted depth, sophisticated texture, delicate shades of meaning, and their deep philosophical and transcendent significance, which of course, was known and understood by their author the great poet-philosopher Francis Bacon, the very person responsible for them. https://www.academia.edu/177794873/Francis_Bacon_s_Extensive_Revisions_The_1619_Pavier_Jaggard_Quartos_and_Thousands_of_Authorial_Amendments_to_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Shakspere_d_1616_Oxford_d_1604_

NEW BOOK BY A PHOENIX Francis Bacon’s Extensive Revisions: The 1619 Pavier/Jaggard Quartos and Thousands of Authorial Amendments to the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio (Shakspere d. 1616; Oxford d. 1604) The number and sheer scale of these additions and changes in the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio are truly astonishing. For example, Othello first appeared in print in a 1622 quarto and in the version printed in the First Folio the next year it is around 160 lines longer with over a thousand differences in its language and words. The Folio version of Richard III is around 180 lines longer than the earlier quarto edition with moreover thousands of small changes and alterations throughout the text. The Folio version of 3 Henry VI contains a thousand lines not found in the earlier quarto and there are also hundreds of minor variants between the two texts. Between the 1609 quartos of Troilus and Cressida and the comprehensive and thorough revised and amended version of the play in the First Folio there are ‘five hundred substantive differences’ and ‘5,000 differences mostly in spelling and punctuation’. https://www.academia.edu/177794873/Francis_Bacon_s_Extensive_Revisions_The_1619_Pavier_Jaggard_Quartos_and_Thousands_of_Authorial_Amendments_to_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Shakspere_d_1616_Oxford_d_1604_

NEW BOOK BY A PHOENIX Francis Bacon’s Extensive Revisions: The 1619 Pavier/Jaggard Quartos and Thousands of Authorial Amendments to the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio (Shakspere d. 1616; Oxford d. 1604) During the years leading up to the publication of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio, Francis Bacon was living at Gorhambury and residing with him was his longtime close friend the poet and playwright Ben Jonson, assisting him in gathering up the various manuscripts and where necessary the printed sources of all the Shakespeare plays intended for publication. Twenty of the Shakespeare plays had been previously published in quarto editions and another sixteen were to be published for the first time in the First Folio which were entered on the Stationers’ Register on 8 November 1623. It is the twenty plays previously issued in quarto editions that we are here concerned with, which immediately prior to their publication in the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio had been subjected to thousands of changes, revisions and amendments. Numerous explanations have been advanced by orthodox Shakespeare scholars in an attempt to account or explain away this incredible anomaly. William Shakspere had died in 1616 and here we were seven long years later with the publication of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio, faced with twenty previously published plays that in varying degrees displayed thousands upon thousand of variances and changes across the full literary and dramatic spectrum of these complex dramas. How then do orthodox Shakespeare scholars try and square the circle? Well, anything and everything. An early version of the play was a memory reconstruction, or a ‘bad quarto’, or the First Folio version was set up from promptbook, or a transcript a promptbook, or the Folio version had been collated and corrected against non-extant ‘foul papers’, or a fair copy of the play. In addition to this, the printer, compositors and/or correctors in the printing shop were responsible for countless changes, and when (at least to any impartial observer) they were so clearly authorial, these changes were the result of unnamed/unknown ‘annotators’ or ‘editors’, and so it went on and on. https://www.academia.edu/177794873/Francis_Bacon_s_Extensive_Revisions_The_1619_Pavier_Jaggard_Quartos_and_Thousands_of_Authorial_Amendments_to_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Shakspere_d_1616_Oxford_d_1604_

NEW BOOK BY A PHOENIX Francis Bacon’s Extensive Revisions: The 1619 Pavier/Jaggard Quartos and Thousands of Authorial Amendments to the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio (Shakspere d. 1616; Oxford d. 1604) Three years later in 1619, Thomas Pavier and William Jaggard (future printer of the Shakespeare First Folio) published ten Shakespearean plays with false imprints and dates. Recently, these quartos were subjected to a minute and detailed examination by Professor Massai in Shakespeare and The Rise of The Editor (Cambridge University Press, 2007) where she highlighted and established that they had been extensively revised and amended on a truly remarkable scale. This included extensive new writing, corrections in dialogue, attention to stylistic preferences, the introduction of new lines, alterations in language and syntax, the correcting of factual errors, changes and variations in stage directions and speech prefixes, all of which required an intimate familiarity with the fictive and dramatic world of the plays. This, of course, gave rise to a problem of the greatest historical consequence, one Professor Massai was only all too acutely aware. The supposed author of the plays William Shakspere had died three years earlier which left Professor Massai with no alternative but to suggest all these wide ranging, variances, revisions & amendments signalled the intervention of an annotating reader, perhaps she suggested Pavier himself, for which of course, there is no evidence whatsoever. The stylistic sophistication displayed in the revisions and amendments, the knowledge and skill to introduce knowing stage directions and speech prefixes, to clarify action and dialogue, and changes in their dramatic structure, required an intimate familiarity with the complex world of the play, making it obvious that most, if not all of the important revisions and amendments were authorial. https://www.academia.edu/177794873/Francis_Bacon_s_Extensive_Revisions_The_1619_Pavier_Jaggard_Quartos_and_Thousands_of_Authorial_Amendments_to_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Shakspere_d_1616_Oxford_d_1604_

NEW BOOK BY A PHOENIX Francis Bacon’s Extensive Revisions: The 1619 Pavier/Jaggard Quartos and Thousands of Authorial Amendments to the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio (Shakspere d. 1616; Oxford d. 1604) FOREWORD The Rosicrucian manifesto the Confessio Fraternitatis published in 1615 the year before the death of William Shakspere contains a piece of devastating information never mentioned by Stratfordian authorities, orthodox Shakespeare biographers, editors or commentators. Its secret anonymous author Bacon points out how easily the so-called learned or learned fools, and the rest of the credulous world, are easily deceived with enigmas and illusions. One of them being of his own creation, which has misled and beguiled the sleepy universities and academia around the globe for centuries: For conclusion of our Confession we must earnestly admonish you, that you cast away, if not all, yet most of the worthless books of pseudo chymists, to whom it is a jest to apply the Most Holy Trinity to vain things, or to deceive men with monstrous symbols and enigmas, or to profit by the curiosity of the credulous; our age doth produce many such, one of the greatest being a stage-player, a man with sufficient ingenuity for imposition; [my italics] such doth the enemy of human welfare mingle among the good seed, thereby to make the truth more difficult to be believed, which in herself is simple and naked, while falshood is proud, haughty, and coloured with a lustre of seeming godly and humane wisdom. OUR AGE DOTH PRODUCE MANY SUCH, ONE OF THE GREATEST BEING A STAGE-PLAYER, A MAN WITH SUFFICIENT INGENUITY FOR IMPOSTION [Anon., Secretioris philosophiae Consideratio brevis a Philipp a Gabella, Philosophiae St conscripta, et nunc primum una cum Confessione Fraternitatis R.C. (Cassel, 1615), pp. 66-67] The following year on 23 April 1616 William Shakspere of Stratford died. In his will he left no manuscripts or quartos of the Shakespeare poems and plays, nor evidence of any literary or dramatic interests, or the slightest indication of owning a single book. In short, the supposed greatest poet and dramatist in the history of all humanity left not literary trail whatsoever. But, of course, William Shakspere was not the author of the immortal Shakespeare poems and plays, he merely served as the literary front for the great philosopher Francis Bacon, whose secret life and writings are watched over by his Rosicrucian-Freemasonry Brotherhood to the present day. https://www.academia.edu/177794873/Francis_Bacon_s_Extensive_Revisions_The_1619_Pavier_Jaggard_Quartos_and_Thousands_of_Authorial_Amendments_to_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Shakspere_d_1616_Oxford_d_1604_

"The Oxfrauds are using the term "prima facie case" erroneously, in my opinion. Just because they say they have a prima facie case doesn't mean they do. "-CW They are so Orwellian

THE FINAL FINAL CAPITULATION Dear Fake and Phony Stratfraudians, As stated above, following the confutation and demolition of your simplistic & infantile Prima Facie Case (an embarrassing laughing stock in Shakespeare Authorship Circles), in the absence of admitting you are deluded, you resort to the low-level pathetic and pitiful modus operandi of misrepresentation, denial and dismissal, which is the signature trademark of this deceptive, deceitful and duplicitous little site. Every intelligent, impartial and objective individual reading the statements above know that the Baconian scholars have not only completely wiped the floor with these indoctrinated deluded fools led by Leadbetter, but ground them into absolute Stratfraudian dust, all in front of their own miserable little flock. You have been Hammered, absolutely Hammered. Knowing it was again turning into a defining existential moment, and that their whole fraudulent charade was about to come crashing down, in fear of being more humiliated and figures of more contempt and mockery, as well as exposed for the charlatans and impostors they are, they have thrown their toys out of their prams, and run for the hills. See: https://github.com/primafacieshakespeare/pfs.comments/discussions/14

"I stopped explaining myself when I realized people only understand from their level of perception." https://emilysquotes.com/i-stopped-explaining-myself-when-i-realized-people-only-understand-from-their-level-of-perception/

NEW BOOK BY A PHOENIX Francis Bacon’s Extensive Revisions: The 1619 Pavier/Jaggard Quartos and Thousands of Authorial Amendments to the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio (Shakspere d. 1616; Oxford d. 1604) https://www.academia.edu/177794873/Francis_Bacon_s_Extensive_Revisions_The_1619_Pavier_Jaggard_Quartos_and_Thousands_of_Authorial_Amendments_to_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Shakspere_d_1616_Oxford_d_1604_

NEW BOOK BY A PHOENIX Francis Bacon’s Extensive Revisions: The 1619 Pavier/Jaggard Quartos and Thousands of Authorial Amendments to the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio (Shakspere d. 1616; Oxford d. 1604) https://www.academia.edu/177794873/Francis_Bacon_s_Extensive_Revisions_The_1619_Pavier_Jaggard_Quartos_and_Thousands_of_Authorial_Amendments_to_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Shakspere_d_1616_Oxford_d_1604_

NEW BOOK BY A PHOENIX Francis Bacon’s Extensive Revisions: The 1619 Pavier/Jaggard Quartos and Thousands of Authorial Amendments to the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio (Shakspere d. 1616; Oxford d. 1604) https://www.academia.edu/177794873/Francis_Bacon_s_Extensive_Revisions_The_1619_Pavier_Jaggard_Quartos_and_Thousands_of_Authorial_Amendments_to_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Shakspere_d_1616_Oxford_d_1604_

NEW BOOK BY A PHOENIX Francis Bacon’s Extensive Revisions: The 1619 Pavier/Jaggard Quartos and Thousands of Authorial Amendments to the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio (Shakspere d. 1616; Oxford d. 1604) https://www.academia.edu/177794873/Francis_Bacon_s_Extensive_Revisions_The_1619_Pavier_Jaggard_Quartos_and_Thousands_of_Authorial_Amendments_to_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Shakspere_d_1616_Oxford_d_1604_

NEW BOOK BY A PHOENIX Francis Bacon’s Extensive Revisions: The 1619 Pavier/Jaggard Quartos and Thousands of Authorial Amendments to the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio (Shakspere d. 1616; Oxford d. 1604) https://www.academia.edu/177794873/Francis_Bacon_s_Extensive_Revisions_The_1619_Pavier_Jaggard_Quartos_and_Thousands_of_Authorial_Amendments_to_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Shakspere_d_1616_Oxford_d_1604_

Hi Christie, They are running scared in the Stratfraudian valleys below!

At least you got one more good comment in, A Phoenix, before they closed the comments yesterday.

NEW BOOK BY A PHOENIX Francis Bacon’s Extensive Revisions: The 1619 Pavier/Jaggard Quartos and Thousands of Authorial Amendments to the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio (Shakspere d. 1616; Oxford d. 1604) https://www.academia.edu/177794873/Francis_Bacon_s_Extensive_Revisions_The_1619_Pavier_Jaggard_Quartos_and_Thousands_of_Authorial_Amendments_to_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Shakspere_d_1616_Oxford_d_1604_

NEW BOOK BY A PHOENIX Francis Bacon’s Extensive Revisions: The 1619 Pavier/Jaggard Quartos and Thousands of Authorial Amendments to the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio (Shakspere d. 1616; Oxford d. 1604) https://www.academia.edu/177794873/Francis_Bacon_s_Extensive_Revisions_The_1619_Pavier_Jaggard_Quartos_and_Thousands_of_Authorial_Amendments_to_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Shakspere_d_1616_Oxford_d_1604_

NEW BOOK BY A PHOENIX Francis Bacon’s Extensive Revisions: The 1619 Pavier/Jaggard Quartos and Thousands of Authorial Amendments to the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio (Shakspere d. 1616; Oxford d. 1604) https://www.academia.edu/177794873/Francis_Bacon_s_Extensive_Revisions_The_1619_Pavier_Jaggard_Quartos_and_Thousands_of_Authorial_Amendments_to_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Shakspere_d_1616_Oxford_d_1604_

NEW BOOK BY A PHOENIX Francis Bacon’s Extensive Revisions: The 1619 Pavier/Jaggard Quartos and Thousands of Authorial Amendments to the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio (Shakspere d. 1616; Oxford d. 1604) https://www.academia.edu/177794873/Francis_Bacon_s_Extensive_Revisions_The_1619_Pavier_Jaggard_Quartos_and_Thousands_of_Authorial_Amendments_to_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Shakspere_d_1616_Oxford_d_1604_

It doesn't seem to matter to them. They press on anyway. Thank you, and the others, who have called them out on their deceptions, even if it feels like Sisyphus trying to push the boulder up the hill. "In a nutshell"--to use a Shakespearean expression ("O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have had bad dreams."--Hamlet) (Bacon's Promus, p. 414,under item #1283, Spes vigilantis somnium. Other examples given: "Hope is a waking man's dream," with references given to Bacon's essay, "Of Death" and his Meditations Sacrae, Spedding 7:248, as well as four more examples from Shakespeare plays. Remembering Bacon's nightmare about his father's house being all plastered over with black mortar, a premonition of his father's death which gave him his early interest in dreams)--sorry, got off on a tangent. Trying again: The legal publisher West has a "Nutshell" series, a series of small volumes, one on each area of law, in which they try to distill the essential points of law. The Oxfrauds are using the term "prima facie case" erroneously, in my opinion. Just because they say they have a prima facie case doesn't mean they do. 1. In Anglo-American legal terminology, the term prima facie case means a case which a judge has decided meets certain evidentiary standards, such that, it is so strong that its proponent is entitled to a presumption in its favor, such that, the plaintiff wins, unless the defendant can rebut that presumption. All that is required to rebut the presumption it is to raise a reasonable doubt. If the defendant raises reasonable doubt, then there must be a trial, where both sides present evidence and a judge or jury decides who wins. 2. Reasonable doubt is present. It has been expressed countless times by respected persons of good judgment who see the inconsistency between the limited facts known about Shaxpere's biography, including the lack of even a decent handwriting specimen, and the learned eloquence and vast knowledge reflected in the works we attribute to "William Shakespeare." 3. There is a legal maxim: no man can be judge in his own cause. Bacon has it in his Maxims of the Law, as William Lowes Rushton discusses in his book, Shakespeare: A Lawyer (giving examples from the Shakespeare plays). The Oxfrauds can't simply self-proclaim that they have a PFC. Only a judge can decide. They've eliminated that step. 5. The Oxfrauds have invited us to present our own PFC. I have tried to explain to them that the case for Bacon is a case you dig for, not a case based on surface appearances. Can the matter ever be proven beyond the shadow of a doubt? Maybe not, but that would not be the standard, after a trial. After a trial, in a civil matter, the standard is usually just a preponderance of the evidence--just a feather's weight to tip the scales. But I don't think there should ever be a trial if the goal of such a trial is to decide the matter for all time. Shakespeare belongs to the whole world and for all time, past, present, and future. This isn't a matter for a court to decide--not in any binding way. 6. Judge Learned Hand, in his 1944 speech, "The Spirit of Liberty," said "The spirit of liberty is that which is not too sure it is right." This spirit of doubt is so necessary to any sort of truth-finding. https://www.fire.org/research-learn/spirit-liberty-speech-judge-learned-hand-1944. If Bacon had set the whole mystery up on purpose to keep people looking for his buried literary treasures and to maintain interest in the Shakespeare plays, I would not be surprised. The Oxfrauds call their introduction "An End to Doubt." That in itself is cause for concern. Doubt is a good thing. 7. Sadly, I fear that many will be mislead by the Oxfraud PFC.

They prefer "debating" Oxies because they are much easier to deal with.

Isn't it odd they don't even give Bacon a page. They'd rather ignore him that engage with the evidence, seems like.

NEW BOOK BY A PHOENIX Francis Bacon’s Extensive Revisions: The 1619 Pavier/Jaggard Quartos and Thousands of Authorial Amendments to the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio (Shakspere d. 1616; Oxford d. 1604) https://www.academia.edu/177794873/Francis_Bacon_s_Extensive_Revisions_The_1619_Pavier_Jaggard_Quartos_and_Thousands_of_Authorial_Amendments_to_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Shakspere_d_1616_Oxford_d_1604_