Samuel Sheppard Knew...

Poet and philologist Samuel Sheppard concealed his knowledge of Shakespeare's identity in his 'Times Displayed' of 1646.

This presentation is dedicated to my learned friend, Roger Stritmatter, who discovered the 'clever key' without which the rest would not have been possible.

[experienceanimation]

What the hell did I stumble onto. Crazy clever

[annabelleventon]

As always, brilliant, illuminating, fascinating, irrefutable, Alexander. Thank you. I'm starting to see the 17s and 40s coming up before you point them out. Exciting!

[SoulJake]

Another excellent presentation. Thank you Mr. Waugh!

[tempest]

As usual Alexander Superb research and delivery! How can anyone doubt the true Shakespeare, Edward de Vere!

[coreyfishwick]

Not even close to finishing this video but I’m loving every one of them, I hope you can expose this information to more people through social media or something

[johnanthony]

Always grateful for the work and knowledge you share.

[padraigosuilleabhain]

Forensic, scholarly analysis...thank you...keep with it

[greggossett]

As fascinating as ever. Love to see such fine scholars tackling the mystery of Shake-spear's true identity. Hopefully in time this historical injustice will be thoroughly addressed and rectified.

[EricM_]

Bravo, Alexander, been looking forward to another episode!

[tempest]

As usual, Alexander Superb!! The push goes on to honour the True Shakespeare, Edward De Vere.

[dudleymq]

Fascinating as always. We need to get a mathematician to calculate the odds against all of these contemporary occurrences of 17/40 occurring coincidentally.

[ronroffel]

If you add the words "doth equal" to the word play in stanza 9, you get the following: "1740 doth equal, and with clever key, we may compare great spear shaker to one of noble birth revealed in EDVVARD, Sir".

The word constructed out of the three vertical letters "ECE" - the upper-case E from Euripides, the C from Sophocles, and the E from Shakespeare - reads suspiciously like the Latin ecce or "behold".

We can therefore say that because Euripides - aka 40 - is on line 17, and the upper-case C - a homonym of 'see' - is above Shakespeare, another hidden message would read "1740 behold is Shakespear" in which the missing letter below the second "s" in Sophocles provides the clue who 1740 is. Ten lines further on Sheppard gives us the name EDVVARD which supplies the missing terminal E in SHAKESPEAR.

Just a couple of ideas.

They were clever chaps and almost anything is possible.

By the way the third Shakespeare in Jonson's encomium is on the 34th left-indented line in the poem or on line 17 x 2.

[sandrahart]

Absolutely riveting. I have only recently found Alexander Waugh’s videos, but they are compulsive viewing.

[ContextShakespeare]

Brilliant as ever. I paused the video to count lines 17th line??? it is all explained 1740. So much fun to count words and lines and find 17s and 4Ts all over the place. Thanks Alexander

[michaelvenezia]

I'm learning so much from your presentations, not only about this subject but also about how other people have created o pieces of objective art and . 🙏 Many blessings

[lesleyh]

You are a indefatigable mischief maker Alexander....Brilliant 😁 I am having trouble joining the society as the site will not recognize my email.

[ModernMetaphysicae]

Another great video. Might I suggest when you reference videos you use the YouTube card feature? It allows you to make a pop up on the top right of your video that will allow people to click on your other videos! It is a rather handy feature!

[RalphEllis]

The Elizabethans loved number-codes for people (probably something to do with Dee).
Here are some common Elizabethan number codes:

03 Lord Henry Howard
07 Cobham
08 Edward Bruce
09 David Foulis
10 Sir Robert Cecil
20 Earl of Mar**
24 Queen Elizabeth I
30 King James I
40 Arbella Stuart
** The Scottish clan of Mar.

Reference books say that 40 is unknown, but 40 is referred to as James’ beloved cousin, and James only had one first cousin - Lady Arbella Stuart. So the Englishman called 40 may well have been an Englishwoman.
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The famous letter from 30 to 40 goes on to speak of the many suitors that 30 (James) had recommended to 40 (Arbella), and it is known that James sent Arbella a number of suitors, which she rejected. And the reason for 30 wanting assurances of 40‘s loyalty, is that Arbella was 4th in line for the royal succession, and she wanted to marry William Seymour who was a Tudor, and thus from the opposing royal line. Such a match was a distinct threat to James’ rule. The budding romance came to tears in 1610 when Arbella married William in secret - so she was promptly placed under house arrest and eventually thrown into the Tower of London by her own cousin, King James I. The love-lorn Arbella starved herself to death five years later, aged 39.

Ralph

[hopefulmelancholy]

I just wanted to take the time to thank you for educating those that are wholly unknowledgeable about the true history of "Shakespeare".

[jeffreyadams]

You’ll notice that the 1570 publication date of the Dee quote the 1 and 0 make ten, plus the 7 makes seventeen. Is that a coincidence? Doubt it.