The Misfortunes of Arthur

[Light-of-Truth]

16 hours ago, A Phoenix said:

The same can be said about the most recent-full length biography by Professor Robert P. Ellis entitled Francis Bacon The Double-Edged Life of the Philosopher and Statesman published in 2015. He to refers to and discusses a whole range of Bacon’s writings but can find no room for mention of The Misfortunes of Arthur.

Isn't that amazing. We see Bacon's name printed in 1587 on a play that Elizabeth attended on February 28, 1587/88.

The entire Shakespeare Authorship question should begin here.

I can't find much about Francis Flower or Nicholas Trotte. Flower was a "printer" I have read, like a silent printer maybe.

The first time Bacon's name appears in something that could become a Shakespeare, and indeed did, we see from Gray's Inn, Maister frauncis Bacon.

MAISTER FRAUNCIS BACON is 201 Simple cipher.

TWO HUNDRED ONE is 157 Simple and 287 Kaye cipher. For me that is very cool! Both of the Secret Shakespearean Seal numbers. This was early in Bacon's literary life, as far as we know.

In this printed history, we have two page 32's as if to bring attention to the number 33.

A. Phoenix, this is really good stuff to bring up this year in 2023, 400 years after the First Folio was printed.

If Bacon left ciphers, which is open to discussion, then he may have been already leaving his mark in 1587 the first time his name appeared in print related to plays. And his name was Sealed with 157 and 287, maybe his Mother's Seal.

Last two lines of Sonnet 11 at the end of the 1st Tier:

She caru'd thee for her seale,and ment therby,
Thou shouldst print more,not let that coppy die.

Add up the first letters of Sonnet 11, "AIATHWIALHLWST", and we get 157 Simple cipher.

Bacon was born Sealed with 157/287 and everything he ever did was Sealed as well. He was carved to be Elizabeth's Seal and that meant he was supposed to produce more. What a shame his Fate did not allow that to happen.

Why is page 33 not page 33, and the second page 32 is actually what should be 33. Why is this even in my mind? The first Bacon mentioned is demanding we give attention to two 32's and 33. We know BACON is 33 Simple cipher. This is Gray's Inn, law people presenting to the Virgin Goddess of Justice. And they have a typo when page 33 should be in sequence?

No wonder my "belief" system feeds on itself when these coincidences never stop showing themselves. LOL

The first time, that we know of, Bacon's name shows up in a play and his name as mentioned is 201 Simple cipher, "Maister frauncis Bacon".

WILLIAM TUDOR I (William Tudor the First if Bacon ever had a child Prince).

Simple, Reverse, Short and Kaye ciphers match up between TWO HUNDRED ONE and WILLIAM TUDOR I. The very first time Francis Bacon's name pops up with his mother Elizabeth in the audience!

I can't stop thinking about that night on Feb 28 long ago.

Clipped from page 33 as numbered:

 

[A Phoenix]

ODNB

The first printed work with the name of Francis Bacon attached to it is also passed over in complete silence by Markku Peltonen in his long and detailed biographical entry for Bacon in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published by Oxford University Press, 2004-2021).

Spread over some four centuries the circumstances surrounding The Misfortunes of Arthur has it seems come full circle. Just as his first editor and biographer Dr. Rawley had failed to mention the first work to which the name of his master is attached the milestone work does not even warrant a single entry in the indexes of the most recent biographies by Jardine and Stewart and Professor Ellis, or given even passing mention by Peltonen in what will most probably be the most widely read account of his life for many years and decades to come.  

Paper: https://www.academia.edu/45006687/Francis_Bacon_and_his_First_Unacknowledged_Shakespeare_Play_The_Misfortunes_of_Arthur_and_its_Extensive_Links_to_his_other_Shakespeare_Works

Video: https://youtu.be/OvUjs6MVvtY

[A Phoenix]

Virtual Silence

The virtual silence surrounding The Misfortunes of Arthur at the hands of Bacon’s biographers and editors for the last four hundred years was however finally broken in the first volume of The Oxford Francis Bacon co-edited by Alan Stewart with Harriet Knight entitled Early Writings 1584-1596 published by Oxford Clarendon Press in 2012 in which The Misfortunes of Arthur finally receives some of the commensurate attention its historical importance so clearly merits. In the volume its editors devote a fair amount of space to examining The Misfortunes of Arthur. The edition includes an eighteen page discussion of the play with helpful footnotes and commentary, and they also print the text of its five important dumb shows. Yet as welcome as this scholarly and informative work is, in the usual orthodox tradition, Bacon’s editors present The Misfortunes of Arthur as a work of multiple-authorship. And in their very careful use and non-use of sources Stewart and Knight very consciously do not once connect or link this Baconian drama to any of the Shakespeare poems and plays

Paper: https://www.academia.edu/45006687/Francis_Bacon_and_his_First_Unacknowledged_Shakespeare_Play_The_Misfortunes_of_Arthur_and_its_Extensive_Links_to_his_other_Shakespeare_Works

Video: https://youtu.be/OvUjs6MVvtY

[A Phoenix]

The So-Called Players

The original 1588 edition of The Misfortunes of Arthur names eight collaborators in connection with the play. The drama is presented has having been chiefly written by Thomas Hughes of Gray’s Inn. The text is preceded by a verse introduction penned by Nicholas Trotte running to five pages. In the original edition following the end of the play it is thereafter stated ‘Heere after followe such speeches as were penned by others, and pronounced in stead of some of the former speeches penned by Thomas Hughes.’ These two speeches are headed ‘A Speach penned by William Fulbecke gentlemen, one of the societie of Grayes Inne, and pronounced in stead of Gorlois his first speeche penned by Thomas Hughes, and set downe in the first Scene of the first Acte’; and secondly ‘One other speeche penned by the same gentleman, and pronounced in steade of Gorlois his last speache penned by Thomas Hughes, and set downe in the seconde Scene of the first and last Act.’ The edition is brought to a close as follows ‘Besides these speaches, there was also penned a Chorus for the first act, and an other for the second act, by Maister Frauncis Flower, which were pronounced accordingly. The dumbe showes were partly deuised by Maister Christopher Yelverton, Maister Frauncis Bacon, Maister John Lancaster and others, partly by the saide Maister Flower, who with Maister Penroodocke and the said Maister Lancaster directed these proceedings at Court.’

[Certaine Deuises and shewes presented to her Maiestie by the Gentlemen of Grayes-Inne at her Highnesse Court in Greenwich, the twenty eighth day of Februarie in the thirtieth yeare of her Maiesties most happy Raigne (London: printed by Robert Robinson, 1587), introduction, F4^v, G1^r-G2^r, G2^r]

Paper: https://www.academia.edu/45006687/Francis_Bacon_and_his_First_Unacknowledged_Shakespeare_Play_The_Misfortunes_of_Arthur_and_its_Extensive_Links_to_his_other_Shakespeare_Works

Video: https://youtu.be/OvUjs6MVvtY

[A Phoenix]

Carefully Constructed Charade

The presentation to the Elizabethan world that The Misfortunes of Arthur was a joint enterprise of eight individuals mainly written by Thomas Hughes, nearly all of whom still remain obscure figures to the recorded pages of history, with the name of Francis Bacon hidden away on its last page, is merely a carefully constructed charade, by its sole author. Aside from Bacon none of these individuals are known to have written any kind of dramatic entertainment, masque or play, during their entire lifetimes.

Paper: https://www.academia.edu/45006687/Francis_Bacon_and_his_First_Unacknowledged_Shakespeare_Play_The_Misfortunes_of_Arthur_and_its_Extensive_Links_to_his_other_Shakespeare_Works

Video: https://youtu.be/OvUjs6MVvtY

[A Phoenix]

An Illuminating Poem

In 1908 A Chambers Bunten discovered in a collection of letters and papers belonging to Anthony Bacon in the British Library a poem referring to The Misfortunes of Arthur which she reproduced in Baconiana which at a single stroke collapses the illusion of its multi-authorship:

Paper: https://www.academia.edu/45006687/Francis_Bacon_and_his_First_Unacknowledged_Shakespeare_Play_The_Misfortunes_of_Arthur_and_its_Extensive_Links_to_his_other_Shakespeare_Works

Video: https://youtu.be/OvUjs6MVvtY

[RoyalCraftiness]

21 hours ago, Light-of-Truth said:

To use a phrase that just popped in my audio world, "Connecting the dots", I kind of feel like what we do see and follow are the belief systems that we stumble on, and also the hints and clues of the same systems they believed. Maybe that is what I do sometimes even if nobody else does.

The TUA (TVA) is big. The 1609 Sonnets, three Ts and an O are obvious in several ways in the cipher Dedication Poem.

Here is one that is just one of many very easy ones to see that does not even reflect the geometry above;

TO.THE.ONLIE.
THESE.

So yea, maybe I am only learning who is leaving these symbols. Another level is why they left them. Maybe there is another level where all that is behind and one leaves hints and clues for future generations who are on higher levels! Its very exciting to consider I have so much to learn when some days I feel like I have already exhausted all paths and just want to take a nap. LOL

So the "gentlemen" at Gray's Inn may have thrown a TVA into this 1587 production for the Queen. It speaks for who they were, and where they were. It also tells us who she was us and what she wanted to hear. Some of us can find hints of who Bacon was and who she was to him.

CJ, may I ask for a quick reply on what I have been thinking about today? A coincidence? My imagination based on my beliefs? Even though a facsimile from 1900 or so of the original 1587 version, I see two page 32s, and page 33 is not numbered correctly. In my belief world the number 33 is BACON. I can demonstrate connections way back to Bacon's life that add some belief support. But of course, proof is impossible. But I hope Truth will shape my belief as much or more than a Lie.

Elizabeth was there, as documented. Bacon's name is on the printed play. He must have been there. Did they make eye contact? I hope so, with smiles and winks.

It may all be nothing, I accept that. Possible Elizabeth only thought of "Frauncis Bacon" that night Feb 28, 1587/88 as her once upon a time "Little Lord Keeper" kid neighbor and was more interested in "Nicholas Trotte" who wrote her intro.

 

We really don't know anyone left them. Someone seems to have left something which is recognizable with some level of informed scrutiny. The overt symbolism we do see is usually fishing in the esoteric imagery (via Jewish mysticism) and it is also clearly still Christian and German Protestant with a focus on end times. There is an undeniable desire to invoke God as a geometric creator and a desire to relate to us cosmological details that are informed by older Ptolemaic epicentric systems (pre 1608 scientific ideas) as well as modern observation of celestial phenomena. It is exploiting basic Euclidian geometry and finding parallels with alchemical ideas. This fits the description of Western esoterism at the beginning of the scientific age. We know the Tau is a cornerstone in the symbolism of the Holy Royal Arch. This is an institution that is really without a body ca. 1600 but it is hosting those who are dedicated in spirit to spreading a worldview that is very tolerant of Judaism and the idea of shaping humans though an initiatory process. We know this sort of current to be more prevalent in England starting with Henry VIII. By the 1650s The Jews will have been reintegrated and there will be a very strong current of Zionism in English Protestantism. I don't know if you can fit Bacon into that. There are plays written at this time that are doing this kind of work. All I can really say is that the imagery and subject matter in some of Bacon's works does appear to fit with the ideas of Jacob Boehme and Heinrich Kunrath and others from the Tubingen school of astronomers and philosophers on some level, and yet Bacon seems to be very careful to tell us that all this stuff is just imposture. The Truth to him was to be found in studying nature. 

[A Phoenix]

A Chambers Bunten

Paper: https://www.academia.edu/45006687/Francis_Bacon_and_his_First_Unacknowledged_Shakespeare_Play_The_Misfortunes_of_Arthur_and_its_Extensive_Links_to_his_other_Shakespeare_Works

Video: https://youtu.be/OvUjs6MVvtY

[A Phoenix]

Cowan & Udall

This important and intriguing poem discovered by Chambers Bunten printed in the 1908 edition of Baconiana did not disturb the pages of orthodox scholarship for nearly three quarters of a century until in 1983 Janet Cowen and Joanna Udall scholars from King’s College, London reproduced the poem in what they believed was the first time in Notes and Queries. I am not in a position to determine whether the Baconiana article was actually known to Cowen and Udall, or whether it was known to the modern editor of The Misfortunes of Arthur Brian Jay Corrigan, who says in reference to the poem, that it was discovered ‘as recently as 1983’, thus in both cases it seems conveniently not.

[Janet Cowen and Joanna Udall, ‘The Critical Misfortunes Of Arthur?’, Notes and Queries, 228 (1983), pp. 402-5; Brian Jay Corrigan, ed., The Misfortunes of Arthur: A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition (New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1992), p. 201]

Paper: https://www.academia.edu/45006687/Francis_Bacon_and_his_First_Unacknowledged_Shakespeare_Play_The_Misfortunes_of_Arthur_and_its_Extensive_Links_to_his_other_Shakespeare_Works

Video: https://youtu.be/OvUjs6MVvtY

[A Phoenix]

Numerous Parents

Paper: https://www.academia.edu/45006687/Francis_Bacon_and_his_First_Unacknowledged_Shakespeare_Play_The_Misfortunes_of_Arthur_and_its_Extensive_Links_to_his_other_Shakespeare_Works

Video: https://youtu.be/OvUjs6MVvtY

[A Phoenix]

Authorial Intent

Paper: https://www.academia.edu/45006687/Francis_Bacon_and_his_First_Unacknowledged_Shakespeare_Play_The_Misfortunes_of_Arthur_and_its_Extensive_Links_to_his_other_Shakespeare_Works

Video: https://youtu.be/OvUjs6MVvtY

[A Phoenix]

One Man's Child

Paper: https://www.academia.edu/45006687/Francis_Bacon_and_his_First_Unacknowledged_Shakespeare_Play_The_Misfortunes_of_Arthur_and_its_Extensive_Links_to_his_other_Shakespeare_Works

Video: https://youtu.be/OvUjs6MVvtY

[A Phoenix]

Hi Rob, 

For Conan and Bacon see the article ofThe Misfortunes of Arthur, pp. 44-47.

[Allisnum2er]

1 hour ago, A Phoenix said:

Hi Rob, 

For Conan and Bacon see the article ofThe Misfortunes of Arthur, pp. 44-47.

Hi A Phoenix,

I have just read your great analysis of the link between Conan and Bacon.

After examining the page of "The Misfortunes of Arthur" in which Conan is mentionned for the very first time, I have a suggestion.

I think that Francis Bacon used the pagination to his advantage.

Indeed, "Cona" appears for the first time on page 9 (3x3) that is also page ...  B ! 😊

https://archive.org/details/misfortunesofart00hughrich/page/36/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater

Truth : BACON - Right to the Throne

The Skil'd Prince Bacon

Troy - Troy

In French "Troy" is a homophon of "Trois" that is the French word for "Three".

In French, Troy Troy # 33 

And 33 = BACON (Simple cipher)

 

[Allisnum2er]

Here is an additional idea ...

https://archive.org/details/misfortunesofart00hughrich/page/36/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater

WILL TUDOR

[A Phoenix]

Good Evening High Wizard of B'Hive,

You have long exhausted my poor impoverished grasp of the English language.

So I am going to repeat myself in simple plain English.

You have once again identified for the first time in four hundred years a number of cryptic devices inserted by the Great One in his first Shakespearean drama providing more confirmation that it was solely written by FB, a work written immediately prior to the Shakespearean era, which finds countless echoes and traces throughout the Shakespeare CANON! ❤️👏🙏

 

 

[Allisnum2er]

1 hour ago, A Phoenix said:

Good Evening High Wizard of B'Hive,

You have long exhausted my poor impoverished grasp of the English language.

So I am going to repeat myself in simple plain English.

You have once again identified for the first time in four hundred years a number of cryptic devices inserted by the Great One in his first Shakespearean drama providing more confirmation that it was solely written by FB, a work written immediately prior to the Shakespearean era, which finds countless echoes and traces throughout the Shakespeare CANON! ❤️👏🙏

 

 

Good Evening A Phoenix,

Once again my heartfelt thanks for your very kind words ! ❤️ I am happy to bring my contribution. From my point of view, this is just one stone of one of the towers of the Majestious Baconian Castle that you are building with mastery, day after day. Many thanks to you for your unvaluable Work ! 🙏❤️ 

[Light-of-Truth]

5 hours ago, A Phoenix said:

Hi Rob, 

For Conan and Bacon see the article ofThe Misfortunes of Arthur, pp. 44-47.

You state in your article "FRANCIS BACON AND HIS FIRST UNACKNOWLEDGED SHAKESPEARE PLAY THE MISFORTUNES OF ARTHUR AND ITS EXTENSIVE LINKS TO AWHOLE RANGE OF HIS OTHER SHAKESPEARE PLAYS":

The fruite of ciuill warres:/A Kingdom’s hand hath goard a Kingdom’s heart’ (Act 4 Scene 3: 23-5): Conan responds with a eulogy to the fame and memory of King Arthur/Queen Elizabeth in Baconian-Shakespearean language which anticipates themes and passages later developed in the several English Shakespeare history plays forming the two tetralogies, as well as Henry VIII, the Roman tragedy Julius Caesar, and perhaps even The Tempest:...

https://archive.org/details/misfortunesofart00hughrich/page/98/mode/1up?ref=ol&view=theater

Yes, The Tempest immediately comes to my mind with one of my most favorite speeches and one that reaches Deep into my Heart and Soul. 😉

You also state on page 46-47:

Why then when it is so blindingly and irrefutably obvious that Conan represents Bacon has not one of the editors of The Misfortunes of Arthur nor any of its commentators ever pointed to it, or even as much as raised the possibility, or even remotely hinted at it? The reason is very, very, simple-because if Conan represents Bacon (as he so obviously does) it strongly points to Bacon being the true author of The Misfortunes of Arthur, as he most certainly is.

Bacon is Conan (a faithful Councillor). 🙂

 

[Light-of-Truth]

Its so exciting that we have a pre-Shakespeare work that could be Bacon's first "public" work. In fact, we may be able to consider this "First" Shakespeare play?

Bacon's finger prints are all over it. His own mother attended the production. It was for her really. "Hi Mom! Look what I can do!"

At the end I see F Bacon, and Tudor really easily in the last lines of the play, not hid much at all. But what is the "S S"? Is it possible Bacon was already playing with the name Shake-Speare in his inner circles? I suspect Dee came up with that name, so it may have been shared by some very early into the story.

In all honesty, what I saw for Tudor is kind of mistaken. What I see as a "D" is a "Y". Looks like a "D" to me though.

Youth tends to age, and age to death by kinde.

Here is a real "D":

Anyway, after reading the EPILOGVS a few times, I hear Bacon speaking as he does. Below is copied, a few characters changed back to the original (very few). Read it and listen to Bacon already speaking to "future ages".

https://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/text/hughes-misfortunes-of-arthur

EPILOGVS.

See heere by this the tickle trust of tyme:
The false affiance of each mortall force;
The wavering weight of Fates: the fickle trace,
That fortune trips; the many mocks of life;
The cheerless change, the easeless brunts and broils,
That man abides, the restless race he runs.
But most of all, see here the peerless pains:
The lasting pangs, the stintless griefs, the tears:
The sighs, the groans, the fears, the hopes, the hates:
The thoughts and cares, that kingly pomp imparts.
  What follies, then, bewitch th' ambitious minds,
That thirst for sceptre's pomp, the well of woes!
Whereof (alas!) should wretched man be proud,
Whose first conception is but sin, whose birth
But pain, whose life but toil, and needs must die?
  See here the store of great Pendragons brood,
The t'one quite dead, the t'other hastening on:
As men, the son but green, the sire but ripe,
Yet both forestall'd, ere half their race were run!
As kings, the mightiest monarchs of this age,
Yet both suppressed and vanquished by themselves.
  Such is the brittle breath of mortal man,
Whiles human nature works her daily wracks:
Such be the crazed crests of glorious crowns,
Whiles worldly powers like sudden puffs do pass.
And yet for one that goes, another comes;
Some born, some dead: so still the store endures.
So that both Fates and common care provide,
That men must needs be born, and some must rule.
  Wherefore, ye peers and lordings, lift aloft,
And whosoe'er in thrones that judge your thralls,
Let not your sovereignty heave you too high,
Nor their subjection press them down too low.
It is not pride that can augment your power,
Nor lowly looks that long can keep them safe.
  The Fates have found a way whereby, ere long,
The proud must leave their hope, the meek their fear.
Whoe'er received such favour from above,
That could assure one day unto himself?
Him whom the morning found both stout and strong,
The evening left all grovelling on the ground.
  This breath and heat, wherewith man's life is fed,
Is but a flash or flame, that shines a while,
And once extinct is, as it ne'er had been.
Corruption hourly frets the body's frames;
Youth tends to age, and age to death by kind.
Short is the race, prefixed is the end;
Swift is the time, wherein man's life doth run:
But by his deeds t'extend renowm and fame,
That only virtue works, which never fades.

FINIS.

 

Great work on this article A. Phoenix! Very exciting! I have to wonder why the world is not Shaking already from this! 🙂

 

[Allisnum2er]

8 hours ago, Light-of-Truth said:

Its so exciting that we have a pre-Shakespeare work that could be Bacon's first "public" work. In fact, we may be able to consider this "First" Shakespeare play?

Bacon's finger prints are all over it. His own mother attended the production. It was for her really. "Hi Mom! Look what I can do!"

At the end I see F Bacon, and Tudor really easily in the last lines of the play, not hid much at all. But what is the "S S"? Is it possible Bacon was already playing with the name Shake-Speare in his inner circles? I suspect Dee came up with that name, so it may have been shared by some very early into the story.

In all honesty, what I saw for Tudor is kind of mistaken. What I see as a "D" is a "Y". Looks like a "D" to me though.

Youth tends to age, and age to death by kinde.

Here is a real "D":

Anyway, after reading the EPILOGVS a few times, I hear Bacon speaking as he does. Below is copied, a few characters changed back to the original (very few). Read it and listen to Bacon already speaking to "future ages".

https://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/text/hughes-misfortunes-of-arthur

EPILOGVS.

See heere by this the tickle trust of tyme:
The false affiance of each mortall force;
The wavering weight of Fates: the fickle trace,
That fortune trips; the many mocks of life;
The cheerless change, the easeless brunts and broils,
That man abides, the restless race he runs.
But most of all, see here the peerless pains:
The lasting pangs, the stintless griefs, the tears:
The sighs, the groans, the fears, the hopes, the hates:
The thoughts and cares, that kingly pomp imparts.
  What follies, then, bewitch th' ambitious minds,
That thirst for sceptre's pomp, the well of woes!
Whereof (alas!) should wretched man be proud,
Whose first conception is but sin, whose birth
But pain, whose life but toil, and needs must die?
  See here the store of great Pendragons brood,
The t'one quite dead, the t'other hastening on:
As men, the son but green, the sire but ripe,
Yet both forestall'd, ere half their race were run!
As kings, the mightiest monarchs of this age,
Yet both suppressed and vanquished by themselves.
  Such is the brittle breath of mortal man,
Whiles human nature works her daily wracks:
Such be the crazed crests of glorious crowns,
Whiles worldly powers like sudden puffs do pass.
And yet for one that goes, another comes;
Some born, some dead: so still the store endures.
So that both Fates and common care provide,
That men must needs be born, and some must rule.
  Wherefore, ye peers and lordings, lift aloft,
And whosoe'er in thrones that judge your thralls,
Let not your sovereignty heave you too high,
Nor their subjection press them down too low.
It is not pride that can augment your power,
Nor lowly looks that long can keep them safe.
  The Fates have found a way whereby, ere long,
The proud must leave their hope, the meek their fear.
Whoe'er received such favour from above,
That could assure one day unto himself?
Him whom the morning found both stout and strong,
The evening left all grovelling on the ground.
  This breath and heat, wherewith man's life is fed,
Is but a flash or flame, that shines a while,
And once extinct is, as it ne'er had been.
Corruption hourly frets the body's frames;
Youth tends to age, and age to death by kind.
Short is the race, prefixed is the end;
Swift is the time, wherein man's life doth run:
But by his deeds t'extend renowm and fame,
That only virtue works, which never fades.

FINIS.

 

Great work on this article A. Phoenix! Very exciting! I have to wonder why the world is not Shaking already from this! 🙂

 

Great findings Rob !🙏❤️

I have no problem with the idea that the stylized "Y" can stand for a "D".

I believe that, in the same way, Francis Bacon used the stylized "M" of "Morning" in order to hide his identity.

https://archive.org/details/misfortunesofart00hughrich/page/114/mode/1up?ref=ol&view=theater

From there, facing the word "Flame" between the "F" and the "B" that stand as a candle, and knowing that Francis Bacon was "Pictor" (painter) that always left clues in the text to help us to find his concealed message , it was only a short step to find the "Flame". 😊

 

 

 

 

 

[A Phoenix]

Ciphers

Bacon’s sole authorship of The Misfortunes of Arthur is confirmed by a number of Bacconian-Rosicrucian ciphers found on the title page of the play which does not carry the name of the play itself. In his Advancement of Learning presents a number of cipher systems which he used in a number of his acknowledged works and his Shakespeare poems and plays to convey concealed and hidden information about his secret life and writings:

Paper: https://www.academia.edu/45006687/Francis_Bacon_and_his_First_Unacknowledged_Shakespeare_Play_The_Misfortunes_of_Arthur_and_its_Extensive_Links_to_his_other_Shakespeare_Works

Video: https://youtu.be/OvUjs6MVvtY

[A Phoenix]

Title Page

Paper: https://www.academia.edu/45006687/Francis_Bacon_and_his_First_Unacknowledged_Shakespeare_Play_The_Misfortunes_of_Arthur_and_its_Extensive_Links_to_his_other_Shakespeare_Works

Video: https://youtu.be/OvUjs6MVvtY

[A Phoenix]

Elizabeth & Mary

Several scholars have highlighted the political allegory hidden beneath the surface of The Misfortune of Arthur. It is a political allegory of the historical and contemporary affairs between England and Scotland which had dominated Anglo-Scottish relations from the outset of the Elizabethan reign predicated upon the question of succession centred around towering figures of Queen Elizabeth and Mar, Queen of Scots. The year before the first and only performance of The Misfortunes of Arthur Mary, Queen of Scots had been executed on 8 February 1587 on the orders Queen Elizabeth to the enormous relief of her senior advisers lead by Bacon’s uncle Sir William Cecil and spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham head of the English Secret Service who at the time was working very closely with Francis and Anthony Bacon. 

Paper: https://www.academia.edu/45006687/Francis_Bacon_and_his_First_Unacknowledged_Shakespeare_Play_The_Misfortunes_of_Arthur_and_its_Extensive_Links_to_his_other_Shakespeare_Works

Video: https://youtu.be/OvUjs6MVvtY

[A Phoenix]

Gray's Inn

A year to the month that Mary, Queen of Scots was executed on the orders of Queen Elizabeth The Misfortunes of Arthur was performed by Gray’s Inn at Greenwich on 28 February 1588, with its text printed only a few weeks later under the title Certaine Deuises and shewes presented to her Maiestie by the Gentlemen of Grayes-Inne at her Highnesse Court in Greenwich, the twenty eighth day of Februarie in the thirtieth yeare of her Maiesties most happy Raigne. There are only three copies of the original 1588 edition known to exist. The only copy now held in the United Kingdom is in the British Library with the other two copies now in the Henry E. Huntington Library and the Houghton Library, Harvard University in the United States of America

Paper: https://www.academia.edu/45006687/Francis_Bacon_and_his_First_Unacknowledged_Shakespeare_Play_The_Misfortunes_of_Arthur_and_its_Extensive_Links_to_his_other_Shakespeare_Works

Video: https://youtu.be/OvUjs6MVvtY

 

[Allisnum2er]

Here is an additional thought regarding my previous post ...

https://archive.org/details/misfortunesofart00hughrich/page/114/mode/1up?ref=ol&view=theater

Under the "Flame" we have the anagram of "Pile".

https://theodora.com/encyclopedia/p2/pile.html

"O happy Genius of this ancient Pile"

Ben Jonson - Lord Bacon's Birthday (1620)
 

"Pile" can be linked to "Spear" and to the "Funeral Pile".

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/p9mbt6cn