Research Catalog

Title

Shakespeare's secret booke : deciphering magical and Rosicrucian codes / David Ovason.

Author

Ovason, David

Publication

Forest Row, East Sussex : Clairview, 2010.

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Details

Description

x, 237 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Whilst Shakespeare's genius is universally recognized, there is a hidden, secretive side to his work that is little known: the fact that he made use of a mysterious code that figures widely in the esoteric literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. The Bard of Avon was a master of such encoding, and his methods were continued, in the Folio of 1623 and in his various memorials, by those who had known him. However, Shakespeare was not the inventor of this code. Among the many arcane authors who made use of it before him was Michel Nostradamus, the famous French prophet and savant."--Publisher's information.

Subject

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Knowledge > Occultism
• 1500-1700
• Occultism > History > 16th century
• Occultism > History > 17th century
• English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
• Occultism in literature
• Rosicrucians in literature

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781905570263
• 1905570260

OCLC

• 748113820
• SCSB-11318542

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library