The Shakespeare Myth

The author mounts a sustained case that Francis Bacon was the true author of the plays attributed to Shakespeare, assembling textual, typographic, and cryptographic evidence. He examines the First Folio's printing, pagination, and columnar layout, claims embedded signatures and key-words across numbered pages, and traces alleged concealed ciphers such as repeated numeric keys. He surveys variant quartos and editorial alterations, examines manuscript links, signatures, and the English language of the texts, and critiques Stratford relics and anecdotes before concluding that the conventional authorship attribution is erroneous.