1632 Second Folio - evidence the author was alive

[Guest Ryan Murtha]

Credit to A. Phoenix for this, but I thought it deserves its own thread. The Second Folio has some 1,679 edits to the First Folio, and the nature of the editor's capabilities... well, in the words of AP, " The very suggestion that the enormous 1,679 amendments, revisions, corrections and improvements concerning the dramatic action, stage-craft, metre, verse, language and style in the Second Shakespeare Folio were executed by a combination of the printer, anonymous compositors and correctors or some unknown editor is simply absurd."

 

 It was however only when M.W. Black and M.A Shaaber in their truly monumental Shakespeare’s Seventeenth-Century Editors 1632-1685 (London: Oxford University Press, 1937) subjected the First and Second Folios to a detailed comparative analysis, did the true enormity of the differences between them finally begin to emerge into the light of day. According to Black and Shaaber there are 1,679 changes in the Second Shakespeare Folio in what was an attempt to clarify, correct and improve the text:

They are fairly evenly distributed among the categories of thought, action, etc. Alterations of grammar are most numerous (459) and changes pertaining to the action least (130). Changes affecting the thought, meter, and style are very nearly equal in number-374, 359 and 357 respectively... We have also collected here a number of passages in which the editor corrected inconsistencies of fact and circumstance by closely following the action of the play…. The changes pertaining to the action of the plays are nearly all indications of entrances and exits and reassignments of speeches…. the most noteworthy accomplishment of the editor in this department is his care in marking a character’s entering or leaving the stage. Seventy-three entrances and exits are correctly added and one is correctly omitted… The changes affecting the meter are among the most remarkable features of the work of the editor…There are 360 of them in F2… There are a few passages in which he converted prose into verse. It may be noticed, too, that in some of the changes in our other categories care is taken not to spoil the rhythm in making the change. Occasionally for instance, when a change affecting the thought or the style robs the line of a syllable, the editor will insert a compensating syllable elsewhere in the line. ….The changes which we classify under the heading of style have to do chiefly with matters of taste and propriety, the choice and the form of words. The chief matters of taste concerned are the preference of one word or form to another and the order of the words...the editor of F2, who was not in the least deterred by the scruples which forbid modern editors to alter the text unless they think they are restoring what Shakespeare wrote, evidently had definite ideas about certain matters of usage which, in justice to him, must be called intelligible... The rectifications of the orthography of scraps of foreign languages in the plays and of proper names are also interesting and sometimes clever. The editor’s Latin was evidently good, good enough, at least, to recover quotations from Mantuan, Ovid, Virgil and Horace ..his Italian and French less good, though he made some partial corrections in these languages too.

Did_Francis_Bacon_die_in_1626_Or_did_he (1).pdf

[A Phoenix]

                     FRANCIS BACON (WHO WITH THE HELP OF HIS ROSICRUCIAN-FREEMASONRY BROTHERHOOD FIEGNED HIS OWN DEATH IN 1626)

                                        CARRIED OUT THE 1,679 AMENDMENTS AND REVISIONS TO THE 1632 SHAKESPEARE SECOND FOLIO.

The very suggestion that the enormous 1,679 amendments, revisions, corrections and improvements concerning the dramatic action, stage-craft, metre, verse, language and style in the Second Shakespeare 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 and linguists (Greek, Latin, French, and Italian-languages familiar to Bacon) they would have had to possess a necessary 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 introduce the appropriate speech prefixes and various stage-directions. 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 an intimate familiarity with their fictive world, the kind of course, known and understood by the author himself, Francis Bacon, the very person responsible for them.

[Light-of-Truth]

A. Phoenix:

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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 an intimate familiarity with their fictive world, the kind of course, known and understood by the author himself, Francis Bacon, the very person responsible for them.

Adding the 1632 Folio to my list of sources to find Treasures. Thank you all for the peek behind a Veil I never thought to peek behind.

Oh, do we all Know the the cipher numbers for TREASURE? Some of us do seek a TREASURE now and then. For me it is often looking for the numbers 157 and 287.

 

[Light-of-Truth]

My favorite part of the Folio:

Minor changes, "praier" was changed to "prayer" and a comma or period added.

PRAYER is 33 Short cipher, but also using the 26 letter codes is 83. To me 83 is the Simple cipher of TRUTH (24 letter codes).

"Vnless I be reliev'd by TRUTH"? Or "Vnless I be reliev'd by BACON"?

Either way Bacon left it to US to breath into his Sailes and set him Free.

 

[A Phoenix]

THE RELATIVELY UNKNOWN SPECIAL ROSICRUCIAN-FREEMASONIC POEM IN THE 1632 SECOND SHAKESPEARE FOLIO TO 'OUR WORTHY MASTER SHAKESPEARE' WRITTEN BY LORD BACON.

[A Phoenix]

THE FREEMASONIC LANGUAGE IN THIS SPECIAL POEM PREFIXED TO THE 1632 SECOND SHAKESPEARE FOLIO.

[A Phoenix]

THE FREEMASONIC POEM PREFIXED TO THE 1632 SHAKESPEARE SECOND FOLIO CONTAINS A NUMBER OF LORD BACON'S SECRET SIGNATURES IN THE FORM OF HIS SIMPLE CIPHER SYSTEM REVEALING AND CONFIRMING ITS AUTHORSHIP.

[A Phoenix]

THE SECRET BACONIAN-ROSICRUCIAN CIPHERS PRESENT ON THE TITLE PAGE OF 1632 SHAKESPEARE SECOND FOLIO.

[Allisnum2er]

The First and Second Folio are fraternal Twins.

And I think that we are  asking to spot the differences.

I believe that some of the "corrections " were made in order to indicate the passages requiring a close scrutiny.

Thus, this is a difference on page 57 ( FRA BACON simple cipher) between the fraternal Twins that allows me to find Bacon and much more

concealed in the following passage of the First Folio ...

https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/facsimile/book/SLNSW_F2/75/?zoom=800

https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/facsimile/book/Bran_F1/75/index.html%3fzoom=1200.html

Edited July 16, 2022 by Allisnum2er

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Love the"Dee" and "rose"!