The Shakespeare Code [Paperback]

Virginia M. Fellows (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 15, 2006

The true story revealed through encrypted messages within the whole works of Shakespeare far exceeds the drama, comedy, tragedy, intrigue, betrayal, false identity and heroism of the actual plays! A real cipher wheel exists today and the author has painstakingly decoded the works of Shakespeare and compared them to known historic events to create a poignant and tragic tale that ends on a note of triumphant. Illustrations and code wheels included so the reader can do it themselves.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Scholar of mysticism Virginia M. Fellows presents The Shakespeare Code, a one-of-a-kind revelation of hidden codes concealed in the works of Shakespeare and other writers of his time. Exposing amazing and scandalous stories, such as the hidden marriage of Elizabeth the "Virgin Queen", tales of murder and scandal, corruption, and the true-life story of code-devisor Francis Bacon, The Shakespeare Code is at once both shocking and intriguing. An amazing compendium of ciphers and methodologies applied to classic literature, from bi-formed alphabets to Dr. Owen's cipher to Ignatius Donnelly's cipher and more; regardless of whether one agrees with all the author's conclusions, one has to admire the persistence and minute attention to detail.

 --Midwest Book Review

 

The book is a wonderful, thrilling, fascinating story.... The story is extremely important and needs to be told. It's inseparable from the Shakespearean authorship puzzle.

--Simon Miles, Author and Researcher

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Summit University Press; 1st Snow Mountain Press Ed., Rev. and Expanded edition (April 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932890025
• ISBN-13: 978-1932890020
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #749,667 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating! Worth the $10 investment, August 7, 2006

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Helen Beaufort "Spiritual-Encyclopedia.com" (Bozeman, MT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Shakespeare Code (Paperback)

As someone who's always had an inkling that there's more to this idea of "Shakespeare" than meets the eye, it's enlightening and encouraging to get the details. Written in a way that really keeps you wanting to read, without even deviating from the facts -it's impressively done. I thought The DaVinci Code was good but this is way better. One of those cases where the truth is more interesting than the fiction.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lily, January 26, 2002

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This review is from: The Shakespeare Code (Paperback)

If you think you know your Shakespeare, think again. Discover the man who should have been king, and the the country doctor who discovered his secret narrative centuries later hidden within the text of his public stories. This book reads like a novel--but it's not!

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Did you hear the latest scandal about the Bacon boy?, April 20, 2010

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Shereen Khan "Shereeeeen" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Shakespeare Code (Paperback)

With a writing style that poses a litany of questions answered by the author, V.M. Fellows, only in gushes of personal supposition that lack any real evidence, only off-handedly referring to the amazing "cipher wheel", this book reads like a gossip column from a turn of the century tabloid. The story-telling is too colloquial and the reading level is young. Fellows "recounts" scenes from Bacon's life as if she were in the room, adding fluffy drama ("[Francis] bursts into the entrance hall and finds Lady Anne just ready to go out for a ride in her fashionable new carriage."-Ch.4) and constantly implores the reader to "imagine how he must have felt" about some incident - not what one expects from a book that claims to hold factual "revelations" of Bacon's "true life story".

Regarding the cipher wheel, V.M. Fellows never describes how it might actually work and in fact dismisses the need to with an air of "trust me, I have it on good authority". At best, she cites moments when other nameless contemporaries of the good Dr. Owen (the builder of the alleged decoder under deciphered instructions also hidden by Bacon within the plays...huh?), a vicar in one instance and a Detroit news editor in another, have been convinced of its authenticity - and then ends there. But who were the vicar and the editor, what were their names and where did she find the stories? Apparently it's not worth boring the reader about but trust her, she has it on good authority.

She does describe the construction of the albatross i.e. the cipher wheel seeming to expect that its mere existence is support enough to justify the wild tale she describes therein.

Other reviews I've read here call the book "fantastic" and it is; The Shakespeare Code is a work of fantasy for it's lack of reliable citation but the yarn itself is entertaining, though it might be a frustrating or even insulting read to those who are passionate about the debate.

It's a light, hobby read for a rainy day, if one is curious but look for no answers here.