10 Mar 2015

(71) Dubious Anagram analysis in Shakespeare's play

Robert Ayres "Looking for [the true] Shakespeare"

 with the help of Roberta Ballantine


Robert Ayres and his Key-witness  Roberta Ballantyne

The number of books that recognize the true author of Shakespeare's works in Christopher Marlowe is growing.  At the beginning of 2014 appeared as an e-book 

Robert Ayres   "Inventing Shakespeare".

This fine and  remarkable book, unfortunately, has a fundamental flaw: It derives 
decisive evidences  from  anagram analysis of long Shakespeare texts that Ayres owes to the "art of deciphering"  of the late  Lady Roberta Ballantine (she died in 2008), who bequeathed him her results.

Unfortunately, it is difficult to imagine that a majority of a reasonable collective will ever be comfortable with the idea of extracting evidence from extensive anagram analysis of Shakespeare texts as an acceptable scientific method? that will by no means  be reproducable  independently by others.

With Roberta's "mental obstetrics" Robert Ayres concluded that Marlowe died in 1621 in Venice.