New Discovery! Stunning 12-Letter Acrostic Exposes Author of a Shakespeare Play

I have never been one for codes—and never mention them in any of my articles, posts, or books. But like word play in sonnets, acrostics, in which the poet uses the first letter of each line to spell out words, were conventional in the Tudor era, and frequently they are just impossible to deny.

Recently, Michael Blanding in his research of Thomas North found just such an acrostic—a stunning example in which the first-letter of the first twelve lines of a coda help confirm the original author of one of Shakespeare’s plays.

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