{"id":353,"date":"2020-01-13T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T18:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/shakespeare-through-the-ages\/?page_id=353"},"modified":"2020-04-21T14:19:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T19:19:30","slug":"samuels-bacon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/shakespeare-through-the-ages\/home\/samuels-bacon\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuels-Bacon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Samuels-Bacon [i.e., Philip Samuels (1881-?)]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em><strong>Man v Ape in the Play of Ear-Ce-Rammed<\/strong><\/em><strong>. Boston, MA: Samuels-Bacon Publishing Company, 1933.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Mark Samuels Lasner Collection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This curious volume may very well be one of the strangest books ever written about Shakespeare. The book opens with a note to the reader in which the author states that \u201cwe pay no attention to rules of grammar or composition, but we are catering to that which appeals to the mind and sound to the ear.\u201d Philip Samuels, writing under the pseudonym of Samuels-Bacon, presents a line-by-line analysis of&nbsp;<em>Hamlet<\/em>&nbsp;in which he aims to reveal the true, secret meaning of the play. His interpretations are unique, to say the least. Through a combination of numeric, symbolic, linguistic, and Biblical interpretations, Samuels concludes, among other things, that Francis Bacon (1561-1626) is the true author of&nbsp;<em>Hamlet<\/em>. While Samuels was by no means the first person to suggest Francis Bacon as the true author of Shakespeare\u2019s plays, Samuels went a step further by claiming that he himself was also the reincarnation of Francis Bacon (and thus, of Shakespeare as well). This, too, Samuels asserted, was encoded in the text of&nbsp;<em>Hamlet<\/em>. Furthermore, Shakespeare\/Bacon had such great foresight that he also included a code in&nbsp;<em>Hamlet<\/em>&nbsp;prophesying the fact that his reincarnation Philip Samuels would be born in 1881.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book\u2019s frontispiece shows photographs of Philip Samuels compared to a portrait of Francis Bacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] Samuels-Bacon [i.e., Philip Samuels (1881-?)] Man v Ape in the Play of Ear-Ce-Rammed. Boston, MA: Samuels-Bacon Publishing Company, 1933. Mark Samuels Lasner Collection This curious volume may very well be one of the strangest books ever written about Shakespeare. The book opens with a note to the reader in which the author states that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":270,"menu_order":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-353","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/shakespeare-through-the-ages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/shakespeare-through-the-ages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/shakespeare-through-the-ages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/shakespeare-through-the-ages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/shakespeare-through-the-ages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/shakespeare-through-the-ages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/shakespeare-through-the-ages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/353\/revisions\/430"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/shakespeare-through-the-ages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/shakespeare-through-the-ages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}