The Shakespeare Code

The Chief Agent…

…..and all the NECESSARILY ANONYMOUS Agents of The Shakespeare Code……

…..are delighted to announce that on the 6th November, 2013…….

The Code received its…..

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE THOUSANDTH VIEW!!!

(125,000)

In addition to this……

……TWENTY NEW COUNTRIES….

……have elected to join The Code. 

They are….

PALESTINIAN TERRITORY, OCCUPIED

MOZAMBIQUE

UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

LIECHTENSTEIN

CÔTE D’IVOIRE

BHUTAN

FRENCH GUIANA

GAMBIA

FALKLAND ISLANDS

ANGOLA

GUADELOUPE

BURUNDI

SENEGAL

SWAZILAND

ETHIOPIA

GRENADA

SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC

MALI

HAITI

TONGA

This brings the number of participating countries to a jaw-dropping…..

ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SIX!!!

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AN IMPORTANT STATEMENT FROM TRIXIE THE CAT

Brothers and Sisters of The Shakespeare Code…..

These figures show the truly PRETERNATURAL power……

……of the World Wide Web….

……power that, at its best…….

……can have the same effect that ‘Culture’ had for Matthew  Arnold….

It seeks to do away with classes, to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere and to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light…….

‘Sweetness and light’ ….

……..are the words that most come to mind when Your Cat thinks of……..

MICHAEL HENTGES

………the brilliant AWARD WINNING Canadian playwright…….

…….and PROFOUND Shakespearean….

….who has graciously accepted a Code Fellowship……

……and so now has the INALIENABLE RIGHT to affix the letters F. S.C…..

 ……Fellow of The Shakespeare Code….

….to his name….

Michael took the time out of a busy life…..

……( he runs a scenic painting firm as well as writing)…

……to contact The Code when it was in its infancy…..

Following a reference made by Peter Ackroyd……

…….in his biography of Shakespeare….

……..to Stewart Trotter’s book, Love’s Labour’s Found….

……Michael ordered it and read it….

He then wrote to Stewart……

I confess to devouring your book in one single, greedy sitting. Didn’t bother taking notes – I was too driven to keep reading because, essentially, your book arrives at pretty much the same destination that my gut instincts have been guiding me towards for some time now. I’d like to take a moment to simply acknowledge what strikes me as a truly ground-breaking contribution to the “accumulated pile” of Shakespeare-themed biography. I’m by no means in perfect agreement witheverything you propose. Would, in fact, argue select points with some vehemence. But I do believe that Love’s Labour’s Found contains numerous missing “puzzle pieces” towards solving the mystery of Shakespeare’s life in the early 1590s.

Beyond the above, your book simply resonates. In a deep and truthful way. And,cursed as I may be with an artistic sensibility, I’m inclined to trust this kind of resonance implicitly. Furthermore: I appreciate contemplating, for a change, the input of a seasoned theatre professional. So much of the debate regarding W. S. has, historically,been hijacked by scholars and, with all due respect: asking an academic to“reasonably conjecture” vis a vis the daily activities of a consummate theatre artist is akin to trusting a psychiatric nurse to diagnose the life expectancy of a 1959 Austin Healy. I mean, you could, but…wouldn’t the opinion of a certified mechanic be more appropriate? Just saying…

Michael then, at a stroke, created The Shakespeare Code…..

More questions: the Grosvenor Chapel lecture series you refer to in your Shakespeare Code Blog.

Did you ever present parts two and three?

Do you plan on publishing them?

Is your research ongoing?

My current state of excitement is not unlike that of a three month old Labrador Retriever with a really precious stick drooping from its maw.

At this point Stewart had only issued ONE POST several months before Michael’s e-mail……..

…….and there seemed to be no interest in it AT ALL…..

…….from anywhere in the world…..

Michael’s ONE LONE VOICE….

…..his selfless encouragement….

 …..his ability to see what The Code might become…..

…even before The Code ITSELF could see what it might become….

…..BROUGHT THE SHAKESPEARE CODE INTO BEING…..

NO HENTGES – NO CODE!!!

….simple as that….

When Your Cat asked him for photo of Michael, he sent, with typical modesty, an old photo of his handsome, thoughtful son, Julian…..

When pressed, he said……

I was tired of sitting @ the computer and decided to have a little fun. I rather prefer this…….

….over an actual photograph of myself. (How’s that for predictable?)

Predictable, yes…..

BUT SWEETNESS AND LIGHT ITSELF….

The Code is more than happy to honour the wishes of…….

MICHAEL HENTGES, F.S.C….

…whose catchphrase is….

Be the person your dog thinks you are

…and who, as ‘Mr. M.H’, is truly….

THE ONLIE BEGETTER OF THE SHAKESPEARE CODE….

‘Bye now….

For Brothers and Sisters who want to read the latest Grosvenor Chapel talk….

‘How Shakespeare’s Dark Lady found God’

Please click: HERE!