Shakespeare Cruxes: Hidden Plots and Cryptic Names

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Part I. Cruxes

1. Portia’s Lottery Cheat
2. Venetian Laws and Portia
3. Whoreson Zed, an Unnecessary Letter
4. Petruchio’s Wooden Leg
5. Nutmeg, Lemon, Cloves
6. Dilldo, Dildo, Dido
7. Courtesan’s Games
8. Maria’s Dry Jest and Eater of Beef
9. Fustian M,O,A,I.
10. Fair as a Text B in a Copy Book
11. Falstaff’s Death
12. Othello’s Double-Time


Part II. Perfect Anagrams

13. The Tempest
14. Two Gentlemen of Verona
15. Measure, for Measure
16. Much Ado About Nothing
17. Love’s Labour’s Lost
18. The Merchant of Venice
19. As You Like It
20. All’s Well that Ends Well
21. Twelfth Night, or What You Will
22. The Winter’s Tale
23. The Tragedy of Hamlet
24. The Tragedy of King Lear
25. The Tragedy of Othello
26. Anthony and Cleopatra
27. The Tragedy of Cymbeline


Part III. Cryptic Names

28. Beginning and Ending
29. Christopher Sly and his Boy Wife
30. Tinker, Christopher Sly’s Profession
31. Meriman, Clowder, Belman
32. Malvolio, Olivia, Viola, Maria
33. Fontybell and Capilet
34. Oliver, Celia, Rosalind, Orlando
35. William and Touchstone
36. Touchstone and Audrey
37. Ducdame, Calls Fools into a Circle
38. All the World’s a Stage
39. Hermia and Lysander
40. Six Mechanicals
41. Three Fairies
42. Archidamus
43. James Gourney
44. Francis the Drawer
45. Three Musicians
46. Gregory and Sampson
47. Richard du Champ
48. Timon’s Epitaph
49. Jaquenetta, Quinapalus, Armado
50. Concolinel, Sweet Air
51. Marcade
52. Nod-I and Noddy
53. Alice Short-cake
54. Egma, an Enigma
55. Ariel, the Real I
56. Sycorax, a Hybrid of Phoenix and Sphinx
57. Caliban, Half a Fish
58. Protestant vs Catholic


Appendix

• Sidney Anagram
• A Lover’s Complaint
• Shakespeare Statue in Wilton House
• Dedication of Shake-speares Sonnets
• Helle’s Bracelet in Hero and Leander