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FRANCIS BACON SECRET REPUBLICAN AND FATHER OF THE MODERN DEMOCRATIC WORLD Both Bacon and Shakespeare (obviously treated separately by orthodox scholars) have very largely been presented as conservative political thinkers whereas more recently several modern scholars have finally begun to partly recognize the republican themes running through both the canons, which completely revolutionizes and transforms our understanding of the first philosopher-poet of the modern world. See A. Phoenix, 'Bacon-Shakespeare Secret Republican Father of the Modern World', pp. 1-14.

FRANCIS BACON FOUNDING FATHER OF THE MODERN SPECULATIVE FREEMASONRY BROTHERHOOD See A. Phoenix, The 1623 Shakespeare First Folio: A Baconian-Rosicrucian-Freemasonic Illusion (2023), pp. 403; 142 facsimiles; 892 references) Chapter XI 'The 1723 and 1738 editions of the Freemasonic Book of Constitutions sanctioned by the Grand Lodge of England cryptically reveal that Francis Bacon was the Secret Founding Father of the Rosicrucian-Freemasonry Brotherhood and Secret author of the Shakespeare First Folio', pp. 325-333. https://www.academia.edu/103102421/The_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_A_Baconian_Rosicrucian_Freemasonic_Illusion

Hi Eric, In the modern Arden Bible edition of Cymbeline (2017) edited by Professor Valerie Wayne the word 'Iarman' is changed to 'German' and 'Iachimo' or 'Giacomo' is an Italian name for which its editor provides some instructive commentary. I have sent the following interesting pages over for your perusal.

Bacon is Shakespeare Francis Bacon-Shakespeare was undoubtedly the greatest poet and dramatist of his age, of all time, who possessed a profound grasp of ciphers, codes, rebuses, emblems, symbolic head and tailpieces, and all other cryptic devices, and undoubtedly the greatest authorial anagrammatist, evidence of which is repeatedly and continually found throughout the First Folio revealing and confirming that Bacon is Shakespeare. PAPER: https://www.academia.edu/106420304/The_Hidden_Baconian_Acrostics_and_Anagrams_in_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio VIDEO: https://youtu.be/wTR_gqloCWs 1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/C_1ffdeMvy8

TIMON OF ATHENS The date when Timon of Athens whose eponymous character is a disguised dramatic portrait of Bacon was written and revised is uncertain. Some aspects of the play reflect circumstances and themes beyond Bacon’s fall in 1621. The play was first entered into the Stationers’ Register in 1623 and printed for the first time in the First Folio with the anagram F BACON: For each true word, a blister, and each false Be as Cantherizing to the root of o’th’ Tongue, Consuming it with speaking. I Worthy Timon. Tim. Of none but such as you, And you of Timon. F BACON Shakespeares Comedies Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies (London: printed by Isaac Jaggard, and Ed. Blount, 1623), Tragedies, p. 96. For more Baconian-Shakespearean acrostics, anagrams and secret signatures see both Yann Le Merlus, ‘Allisnum2er’ and Rob Fowler, ‘Light of Truth’ in ‘Baconian Acrostics, Anagrams, Monograms, & Secret Signatures in the Shakespeare Poems & Plays’, ‘Special Bacon-Shakespeare Title Pages & Emblems’, ‘The Baconian-Rosicrucian AA Headpieces in Editions of Shakespeare Poems, Quartos & Folios’, on B’Hive https://sirbacon.org/bacon-forum/index.php?/topic/93-the-baconian-rosicrucian-aa-headpieces-in-editions-of-shakespeare-poems-quartos-folios/page/9/#comment-7095 and for a collection of his ground-breaking videos see also Yann Le Merlus, ‘Allisnum2er’, at https://sirbacon.org/all-is-num2er/ PAPER: https://www.academia.edu/106420304/The_Hidden_Baconian_Acrostics_and_Anagrams_in_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio VIDEO: https://youtu.be/wTR_gqloCWs 1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/C_1ffdeMvy8

CYMBELINE In Cymbeline, King of Britain first printed in the 1623 First Folio placed at the last of the tragedies the final drama in the volume Bacon conceals and reveals himself several times in one line in Act 2 Scene 5 where Posthumus refers to the false boast of Giacomo: This yellow Iachimo in an houre, was’t not? Or lesse; at first? Perchance he spoke not, but Like a full Acorn’d Boare, a Iarman on, Cry’de oh, and mounted; found no opposition The above is a very condensed and involved allusion to its author, Bacon. The name Bacon is of Germanic (‘Iarman’) origin, a boar is a wild pig from which bacon is derived, and for good measure ‘acorn’ phonetically sounds like Bacon, and with the initial letter from the next word ‘boar’ it yields the anagram, BACON, and when we add the letter ‘f’ from the word ‘full’, the anagram F BACON. Shakespeares Comedies Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies (London: printed by Isaac Jaggard, and Edward Blount, 1623), pp. 389-90 PAPER: https://www.academia.edu/106420304/The_Hidden_Baconian_Acrostics_and_Anagrams_in_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio VIDEO: https://youtu.be/wTR_gqloCWs 1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/C_1ffdeMvy8

THE WINTER’S TALE The late play The Winter’s Tale (written c. 1609-10) which explored the political process of the union of England and Scotland reflected in a series of speeches and treatises written by Bacon in the years leading up to its composition, was first printed in the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio with the following BACO acrostic and anagram of BACON: By my regard, but kill’d none so. Camillo, As you are certainely a Gentleman, thereto Clerke-like experience’d, which no lesse adornes Our Gentry, than our parents Noble Names, In whose successe we are gentle: BACO and BACON Shakespeares Comedies Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies (London: printed by Isaac Jaggard, and Edward Blount, 1623), p. 281 PAPER: https://www.academia.edu/106420304/The_Hidden_Baconian_Acrostics_and_Anagrams_in_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio VIDEO: https://youtu.be/wTR_gqloCWs 1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/C_1ffdeMvy8

CORIOLANUS The Roman history play Coriolanus (first written around 1608) was first printed in the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio and was also adorned with an anagram of BACON: Coniecturall Marriages, making parties strong, And feebling such as stand not in their liking, Below their cobled Shooes. BACON Shakespeares Comedies Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies (London: printed by Isaac Jaggard, and Edward Blount, 1623), Tragedies, p. 2 PAPER: https://www.academia.edu/106420304/The_Hidden_Baconian_Acrostics_and_Anagrams_in_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio VIDEO: https://youtu.be/wTR_gqloCWs 1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/C_1ffdeMvy8

MACBETH The other great tragedy Macbeth (written in 1606) was first printed in the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio with the following hidden anagram of BACON secretly inserted into its text: Conduct me to mine Host we loue him highly, And shall continue, our Graces towards him. By your leaue Hostesse. BACON Shakespeares Comedies Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies (London: printed by Isaac Jaggard, and Edward Blount, 1623), Tragedies, p. 135 PAPER: https://www.academia.edu/106420304/The_Hidden_Baconian_Acrostics_and_Anagrams_in_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio VIDEO: https://youtu.be/wTR_gqloCWs 1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/C_1ffdeMvy8

KING LEAR The True Chronicle Historie of the life and death of King Lear and his three Daughters first appeared in a Quarto edition in 1608 and just over a decade later in one of the falsely dated Pavier/William Jaggard Quarto editions in 1619. A third version of King Lear appeared in the 1623 First Folio which was subjected to substantial revision, cutting some 300 lines from the first Quarto and adding around a hundred new lines to the Folio version, with several speeches differently assigned, as well as numerous variations in language and wording. Our sublime dramatist also inserted his secret signatures here in the form of two anagrams of BACON: Glou. Come hither fellow. Edg. And yet I must: Blesse thy sweete eyes, they bleede. BACON Or ere Ile weepe: O Foole, I shall go mad. Corn. Let vs withdraw, ’twill be a Storme. Reg. This house is little, the old man an’ds people, Cannot be well bestow’d. Gon. ’Tis his owne blame hath put himselfe from rest, And must needs taste his folly. Reg. For his particular, Ile receiue him gladly, But not one follower. BACON Shakespeares Comedies Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies (London: printed by Isaac Jaggard, and Edward Blount, 1623), Tragedies, p. 301, 295; Edward D. Johnson, Shakespearian Acrostics (Birmingham: Cornish Brothers Ltd, 1942), p. 65; William Stone Booth, Subtle Shining Secrecies (Boston: Walter H. Baker, 1925), p. 259 PAPER: https://www.academia.edu/106420304/The_Hidden_Baconian_Acrostics_and_Anagrams_in_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio VIDEO: https://youtu.be/wTR_gqloCWs 1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/C_1ffdeMvy8

OTHELLO The Tragedy of Othello (written in 1604) first appeared in print in a Quarto edition in 1622 with another version of Othello appearing the next year in the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio. Astonishingly, a comparative examination of the 1622 Quarto edition and the version of Othello in the First Folio reveals that the latter is 160 lines longer and differs in wording in more than a thousand instances. Of course, the secret author of Othello was still very much alive in 1622 and 1623, which surely to any rational person is of some critical importance, whose mortality is conveniently evidenced in the hidden anagram of his name BACON: Comfort forsweare me. Vnkindnesse may do much, And his vnkindnesse may defeat my life, But neuer taynt my Loue. BACON Shakespeares Comedies Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies (London: printed by Isaac Jaggard, and Edward Blount, 1623), Tragedies, p. 332; William Stone Booth, Subtle Shining Secrecies (Boston: Walter H. Baker, 1925), p. 264 PAPER: https://www.academia.edu/106420304/The_Hidden_Baconian_Acrostics_and_Anagrams_in_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio VIDEO: https://youtu.be/wTR_gqloCWs 1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/C_1ffdeMvy8

Hi Rob, Masterclass. Brilliant.

Hi Eric, I think all intelligent people rightly start off being sceptical-this is undoubtedly a good thing. And equally, those with rigorous, fair, balanced and open minds, when faced with numerous examples which diminishes and then effectively eliminates the possibility of coincidence and chance, accept the possibility, probability or even certainty that they are intentional and by design. The Shakespeare First Folio contains a wide range and diversity of secret Baconian signatures (acrostics, anagrams, codes, ciphers, headpieces and tailpieces, etc) of varying weight and strength which cumulatively in my view places Lord Bacon's authorship of the Shakespeare works beyond all reasonable doubt.

MEASURE FOR MEASURE The complex Shakespeare play Measure for Measure has at its heart the God-like Rosicrucian figure of Duke Vincentio one akin to Prospero in The Tempest. He is seen by many Shakespeare scholars as a surrogate of the poet-dramatist himself made in his own image. Or put another way the secretive, complex and enigmatic character of Duke Vincentio, who adopts multiple masks, disguises and identities in Measure for Measure represents Shakespeare, that is to say the true author of the play Bacon, who outside of the play, also adopts multiple identities and disguises behind his living masks, including the pseudonym of Shakespeare. Marked by our concealed author with his anagram F BACON: (As I subscribe not that, nor any other, But in the losse of question) that you, his Sister, Finding your selfe desir’d of such a person, Whose creadit with the Iudge, or owne great place, Could fetch your Brother from the Manacles Of the all-binding-Law: and that there were No earthly meane to saue him, but that either F BACON Shakespeares Comedies Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies (London: printed by Isaac Jaggard, and Edward Blount, 1623), Comedies, p 69; Edward D. Johnson, Shakespearian Acrostics (Birmingham: Cornish Brothers Ltd, 1942), p. 22. For the play see A. Phoenix, ‘Francis Bacon, The God-Like Rosicrucian Figure Of Duke Vincentio, And The Unpublished Speeches Of Lord Keeper Sir Nicholas Bacon, In Measure For Measure, (2021), pp. 1-48 PAPER: https://www.academia.edu/106420304/The_Hidden_Baconian_Acrostics_and_Anagrams_in_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio VIDEO: https://youtu.be/wTR_gqloCWs 1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/C_1ffdeMvy8

HAMLET The incomparable tragedy of Hamlet whose central figure is a disguised dramatic portrait of its concealed author also inserts an anagram of F BACON: Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancie; rich, not gawdie; For the Apparell oft proclaimes the man, And they in France of the best rank and station, F BACON. Shakespeares Comedies Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies (London: printed by Isaac Jaggard, and Edward Blount, 1623), Tragedies, p. 156. See A. Phoenix, ‘Francis Bacon And His Earliest Shakespeare Play Hamlet A Tudor Family Tragedy’, (2021), pp. 1-109 PAPER: https://www.academia.edu/106420304/The_Hidden_Baconian_Acrostics_and_Anagrams_in_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio VIDEO: https://youtu.be/wTR_gqloCWs 1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/C_1ffdeMvy8