William Basse Knew...

William Basse's famous poem about Shakespeare reveals that he knew the true identity of the poet behind the pseudonym.

[davidhannigan]

AW - the fourfold fivefold. Next level decoding. The 3-4-5 key.

[truthlove]

Wonderful! Thank you for posting. Commenting to help the analytics.

[Eudaimonia]

When, in my teens, I opened Shakespeare's Complete Works for the first time I was instantly transfixed by this poet of poets. I also found myself perplexed by the Droeshout engraving that formed the frontispiece. I kept wondering about it for years.

In my twenties I visited Stratford-upon-Avon, giddy with excitement about visiting Shakespeare's so-called birthplace. When I stepped inside Holy Trinity Church my experience was so profound that by the time of my exit I no longer believed that I had visited a place that could have any possible association with the Bard.

Ever since my unexpected internal volte-face in Stratford I have been looking for clues to the man behind the Droeshout mask. The Earl of Oxford has been too convincing a candidate to ignore. 

I was one of your first subscribers when you uploaded your introductory video on YouTube, Alexander. Your research is excellent and your narrative lucid; you are building a case that is becoming stronger with each upload. Thank you for your valued input and I look forward to any further research findings you may wish to share here. Your book is keenly awaited.

Perhaps your work will one day be the catalyst for the public recognition of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, being the genius behind the Shakespeare pseudonym. 

It may take many years of labouring against a tide of resistance. Keep ploughing on. Be patient. Your supporters are willing you on!

I truly hope that the big (public) reveal will happen in my lifetime and the bestower of the goodly golden muse may at last be honoured by name.

"So he that takes the pain to pen the book
Reaps not the gifts of goodly golden Muse,
But those gain that who on the work shall look,
And from the sour the sweet by skill doth choose.
For he that beats the bush the bird not gets,
But who sits still, and holdeth fast the nets." (17 4t)

[gonzoopera]

Thank you for all this fascinating material. Someday this will all be part of the actual biography of "Shake-speare"

[lryoung]

Another great presentation mr Waugh.. thank you for your hard work

[advancedfaces]

22:08. There are 17 lines. The header design, (not sure what to call it) is made of 8 large designs each with 4 smaller designs. So 32 small design plus 8 larger ones = 40. 1740 is always there when it comes to these things.

[LGTV]

Wonderful; Such perfect pitch and place to make it clear, where contradiction will not hear. Safely to Ignore the Rant, from pillar to post with deftly scant. Just mind to pierce the starry veil for Here and Say contort the trail. But true to Oxford lead a vert to journey's end my noble friend. I now see too beyond lament and thanks to you I am content.

[RalphEllis]

Leonard Diggs.
I note his grandfathers book was called Tectonicon.
In Greek a Tekton is an architect and by extension a Freemason.

We see the same in the Gospels, where Jesus is called a Tekton, not a carpenter. This was because Jesus was indeed a Freemason, which is confirmed by his being called the ‘cornerstone’, and also by the Raising of Lazarus. The latter is, of course, a masonic 3rd degree raising, then same as today. Lazarus even appears ‘hoodwinked’.

So it is likely that Diggs was a Freemason.
Ralph

[onefeather]

Absolutely love these mysteries, ciphers and codes are awesome and you never know what one may find.❤❤❤

[justish]

I've just come upon your work the past few days and have seen perhaps five videos so far. Wanted to go ahead and point out what hasn't been said yet in your thorough expositions. 1) The four-leafed clover used in the embellishment of 17 cloverleaves in a row is the 4/3 symbol very clearly in that the plant is a trefoil, meaning three-leaved and in the case of the varieties that produce four leaves, that is considered "lucky", as in magical, fortuitious. It is also associated with the elf, a trickster that can appear and vanish. Each of the leaves is not only shaped like a T-triangle, but is literally one leaf of the "t"refoil, a T, so it's four T's. The trefoil is used to signify the Trinity as well, so there you have the divine aspect wrapped in. 2) Similarly, in regard to the three "trifles" given in a passage you cited here, there you have your three sets of three again as "trifle" literally has tri in the front (so repeated three times is three threes) and sounds just like trefoil so is an allusion to that and further means not just triviality, which is the modern sense, but mockery and deception in the older sense. It's root forms are given as truffe/trufe, so it hilariously mirrors truth with trufe, an approximation that is not and sounds likes a drunk or vagrant missing teeth trying to express the high ideal, i.e. a lowly expression of a highly held position, or a bar-room bard to a courtly lord. It's genius.

[garybrodziak]

wonderful - your readings brought you to here, I wonder where you started, thank you.

[AlannahRyane]

I watched 'Nothing truer than truth' last night and was hoping to see some of your contributions and was happy you fittingly came in at the end to present a bit of your where he is buried research.

[canonical]

_So for clarity and to get this story a bit straighter in my head:_
Shakespeare (of Stratford) was probably a 'broker' of plays, a part-time actor and a bit of a wheeler-dealer. He had an education at the grammar school because his father was an alderman of Stratford and thus was entitled to send his kid(s) to school. Shakespeare (of Stratford) went to London and rubbed shoulders with the right people and was able to wheedle his way into the higher classes and gain a fair few 'big' friends'. The big friends included the likes of Oxford, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, Ben Jonson and Thomas Dekker etc. *(who REALLY knew how to write).* They (the friends inc. Shakespeare) wrote many plays which were performed to great acclaim under the (umbrella) pen-name *'Shakespeare'* (to protect the toffs from possible repercussions). They made a lot of money and were a great success. Shakespeare (of Stratford) returned to Stratford very wealthy but relatively anonymous because the plays and the name 'Shakespeare' were not yet 'famous' to most people (especially lower classes like market town Stratfordrians). So he was a wealthy yet 'local' minor celebrity. He bought tithes which allowed him to be buried in Trinty, which he was when he died. His body (in Stratford) is the body of Shakespeare (of Stratford - businessman/actor/broker). The REAL writer(s) are probably (some of) those buried in poet's corner - either a single man or a gaggle of *(very good)* playwrights. The Trinity tomb gained fame AFTER the folios were published. That fame snowballed and caused problems (mainly) because of the money-grab opportunity that ensued and the God-like status that exploded for the *marketing* and *product* that was/is Shakespeare. The grave at Trinity consequently attracted HUGH interest along with attempts to dig up the body/skull. So provisions were put in place to protect it. Protections like altering the position of the grave, reinforcing and upgrading the grave, possibly moving the body to a secret/more secure location* etc. And throughout hundreds of years, those protections have resulted in tales, folklore, myths and legend that has provided fodder for the debates we now have. But the body of a man named Shakespeare/Shak-spear DOES actually exist at Trinity (in or thereabout the TRINITY gravesite). And that man DID play a part in creating the works of Shakespeare.
A body of the Stratford Shakespeare really did exist. If the Trinity grave *IS* empty (for whatever reason) then we are missing a body! Where is that body? (IMO it is either right there in place or under the Chancel floor in a crypt that the modern-day 'archaeological investigation' GPR scanning failed to find. - There *WAS* a Charnel House literally feet from the grave locations (the sealed-up door still exists right below the effigy) with subterranean spaces that could conceivably be located below the Chancel floor, and thus the grave could have been incorporated into this subterranean space. This subterranean space *still exists* but is covered over and sealed off - *but it is STILL there* ).
Is this a fair assessment?


* Hugh Clopton's EMPTY tomb would be an excellent (hiding) resting place for Stratford Shakespeare!

[russellmartocci]

As ever, utterly convincing. We're all learning a lot about English history and methods of academic research. It can only serve viewers well. On the "last-minute left out poem", I suspect it was written with the intent that it would remain only in the notes. He never intended to include it. He wanted it to be hard to find; but there to be found.

[samlloyd]

Another fascinating presentation dear Alexander, really looking forward to your book (s)... keep on being your ever insightful self.

[RalphEllis]

The goddess Athena is the British Britannia, as you can see on the coins of Greece and Britain.
Therefore the author if these works is the nation herself - Britannia.
Or, since Lizzy dress in armour for her famous Armada speech, perhaps Britannia is Lizzy...
Ralph

[stevenhershkowitz]

"Thy unmolested peace in an unshared Cave
Possess as Lord, not Tenant of they grave"
is an echo of Vere's most famous poem (under his own name anyway)
"A doubtful choice of three things one to crave,
A kingdom or a cottage or a grave. " (kingdom = Lord, cottage = Tenant, grave = grave)

[OarEmpire]

Incredible content! Always very excited to see a new upload! Continuously throughout your videos you show an intent of mind that doesn't settle with one method of inquiry, but use comparison, relationship of material and willingness to be mathematical through cryptography—an honest scholarly approach! There's much to be learned through this. Just wanted to ask you Alex if you would ever consider doing a video on Edward de Vere's personality or characteristics. Edward as a person has always fascinated me, but the content regarding that is quite scarce and if it is there much of it is quite shallow, kind of painting him as a "less than sufficient" earl, who squandered money and died in debt. I know this might deviate from the original content of your channel, however i feel that because of your deep research in these areas you might produce a clearer and more truthful image. Just a thought. :)

[ronroffel]

There is so much to add, but here is one item. The contradictions in the front matter of the First Folio (24:07 onward) should be read as ironic commentaries on each other. For example, sometimes de Vere wrote effortlessly, sometimes he had to rewrite entire plays (25:29).

[sorenjensen]

Is it not Stratford in London that is referred to? Londoners at the time (1623) would not have had any relation to or even have heard of Stratford-upon-avon.
Thank for another wonderful vid! What a big brain 🧠 you have!