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  • Paperback: 380 pages
  • Publisher: MUSIC FOR STRINGS (28 April 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1905424051
  • ISBN-13: 978-1905424054
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 151,916 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Sir Henry Neville - the true author of Shakespeare's works - the discovery that created a sensation in the literary world. Shakespeare historian, Brenda James, always felt that the dedication to the sonnets may have contained a code - but for what purpose? How could it be cracked? When her research led to a little-known code breaking technique, she did not suspect that this would reveal a 400 year old secret - the name of the real author. This book outlines James' investigation and previously unpublished material: code breaking, the discovery of forgotten documents and years of detailed research and analysis. Her journey unravels the mysteries behind the sonnets and explains some of the most obscure references in the plays. Find out why Sir Henry's authorship remained undiscovered for almost four centuries.

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5.0 out of 5 stars HENRY NEVILLE AND THE SHAKESPEARE CODE, 10 Jul 2008
By Dr. J. W. Casson (UK) - See all my reviews
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The Shakespeare Authorship Question has been solved after 400 years of false claims and confusion. This startling revelation will take some time for scholars and the public to accept but James's book clarifies the way she made her discovery that Henry Neville was the real author behind the pseudonym "William Shakespeare". It is a thrilling and intriguing read: it is also meticulously researched and detailed so that it will stand being read more than once, and repay such careful reading, as it reveals the implications of the discoveries for an understanding of Shakespeare. James reveals the true meaning of passages in the plays, of sonnets and solves mysteries that have puzzled previous critics. Above all however this book is the exposition of the code that hid the name Henry Neville in the dedication to the 1609 edition of Shakespeare's sonnets. James did not set out to find any particular name: she was, unlike Baconians and Oxfordians, a researcher who had no idea what her work would reveal. In intuiting that the dedication was a coded communication waiting to be deciphered, she wondered whether it would reveal who "Mr. W.H." was and perhaps the identity of the Dark Lady. So it was with astonishment that she found the first message that emerged from her decoding was, "The Wise Thorp (TT: the publisher of the sonnets) hid the poet." It was then she realised that she was on the track of the authorship. It was two further years before her decoding progressed to the point of discovering the name Henry Neville: a name unknown to her at the time. Her subsequent research revealed that Neville indeed matched all the requirements in education, travel, experience, life story and character that the true author of the canon would need. The book tells the story of this unfolding discovery. James is careful to examine not only the messages hidden in the dedication but also the mechanism of the code itself. Sceptical readers can marvel not only at the genius that created the code but the brilliance of the woman who solved it. Her parallel analysis of passages written by Shakespeare and Neville is particularly striking. Her many subsequent discoveries about Neville and his authorship are stunning. I will not spoil the excitement by revealing any of these in this review.

James has found further corroborative evidence in deciphering the symbolism of Ben Jonson's play "The Staple of News" which previous scholars had thought was about the First Folio and which James has now been able to show contains evidence for Neville's hidden identity (see chapter 13). As Ben Jonson was one of the few people who undoubtedly knew both the actor William Shakespeare and the diplomat Henry Neville, his symbolic clues to the identity of the author of the First Folio are particularly significant. Further discoveries will be revealed in James's next book and in the Journal of Neville Studies. (see www.henryneville.com)

This book is a sequel to James & Rubinstein's The Truth Will Out, Unmasking the Real Shakespeare (2005, Harlow, Pearson Longman). It can be read before or after that book, providing readers with another opportunity to assess the historic importance of this discovery.

6/7/08: Dr. John Casson

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