In Brief:

· Honorificabilitudinitatibus

· Alfred Dodd's "Numerological Cypher"

· Bacon's coded signature in The Tempest

· A "deciphering" of the First Folio

At Length:

· Ignatius Donnelly, The Great Cryptogram (1888)

· Orville Owen's Cipher Wheel (1890s)

· Penn Leary's Second Cryptographic Shakespeare (1990)

· Shakespeare, Bacon, and Secret Societies

Baconian Ciphers

The most elaborate attempts to discern codes, ciphers, and secret wisdom within Shakespeare's writings have come from Baconians - people who believe that Sir Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's works.

Their efforts stem from their awareness that Bacon himself was a talented cipher-maker.