Some Shakespeare Secret Anagrams for Entertainment, Merchant of Venice

[Jim F.]

Anthonio=in-no-oath. He takes an oath he should not.

Portia=to-pair. She plots to pair (match) herself a man, and to pair
(impair) Shylock in the trial.

Shylock=shy-lock=sly-hock. His shy act locks Anthonio for a sly hock.
Originally he wants "in any part of your body it pleases me."

Bassanio=an-ass-boy. He gives away his wife's ring that only death can
part, and tells the world that another man is more important than her.

Leah=hale, Turkies=trus-key. Shylock admires Jacob the first usurer so
much that he calls his wife Leah (or married her for the name). Leah's
ring made of Turkies is given away by his *daughter*, so Shylock loses
in the *flesh and blood* trial his hale (welfare, remedy) made of
trus-key (trus: to bind; key: power of locking or unlocking).

Tuball=tub-all. Tuball reports the wrack of Anthonio's argosy to
Shylock, who then cries, "go Tuball . . . go Tuball." Shylock simply
wishes to tub all Anthonio's argosies into sea. Actor may consider
saying "go tub ALL . . . go tub ALL."

Some amend Tuball to Tubal, but it's printed Tuball always in quarto
and folio; however, "all" appears occasionally as al, so Tub-al is
fine. Some modify Turkies to turquoise, and that buries a secret.

[book...@yahoo.com]

Check out "reverse speech." It's based on the premise that the
unconscious mind always expresses inside stuff along with regular
speech, so that you can decipher secret meanings even the speaker
isn't conscious of. See this at
http://www.reversespeech.com/home.htm

Question is whether you can not only use recorded speech and reverse
it to hear other meanings, but also do this with written language.
Might have to use your imagination, but for some people it turns out
to be a gas.

[Jim F.]

On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 3:49:51 PM UTC+8, book...@yahoo.com wrote:
> unconscious mind always expresses inside stuff along with regular
> speech,

I check the link but prefer the brief comment. It can explain how
James Gurney was created.

That author of _King John_ was plotting Philip the Bastard's abroad
journey of games and toys, and thinking of the alike Philip Sparrow.
Unconscious mind of gaol/jaole made the author do the change of
Games/James and Journey/Gourney, and use "toys abroad" to affirm
the anagram.

BAST: Iames Gournie, wilt thou give us leave a while?
GOUR: Good leave good Philip. [leave Good below Iames is suspicious]
BAST: Philip, sparrow, Iames. There's *toys abroad* . . .

Adding James Gourney is odd. Without the name the text can still lead
readers to _Guy Earl of Warwick_, but for what? In _Troublesome Reign
of John_ (1591), Philip's "let me alone for *game*" is enhanced by this
name; the mission of James Gourney is a hint, to treat _Guy_ as a
game's journey of anagrams.

[Jim F.]

Philip Sparrow and "James Gournie=Game's Journey" in King John lead
readers to Guy Earl of Warwick with anagram in mind.

"Philip is my name, a bird of Venus" refers to Philip Sidney via
Venus bird (_en_s _i_d) to spell Sidney. The exchange of y and i was
common then like Edmund Spenser's Colin=Lycon.

Philip Sparrow was created by John Skelton and used in Astrophel and
Stella already. The author of _Guy_ continued the name play and added
some colorful patches to transform the name to Philip Sidney (who died
in a holy venture similar to Guy) as a remembrance of Mary's brother.

"Minded Sparrow" (Minde_ S_ar___) spells Mary Sidney, the mind of
Philip for his come home again using William Shakespeare (Sparrow the
clown) as their front man.

Philip Sparrow (P.S.) & Minded Sparrow (M.S.) match with the initials of
Philip Sidney (P.S.) & Mary Sidney (M.S.), like PyrocleS & MusidoruS
in Pembroke's Arcadia.

[Jim F.]

Turlygod is an odd word in King Lear. Some say it's an anagram of
Truly God. The trouble is to fit that to its context.

EDGAR.
Sometimes with Lunatic bans, sometime with Prayers
Enforce their charity: poor _Turlygod_, poor _Tom_,
That's something yet: _Edgar_ I nothing am. [Exit.]

Edgar is a perfect anagram of raged by reversing Edgar to ragde and -de
to -ed. To rage is to get mad like Edgar on the stage.

Tom's reverse is mot, mote's obsolete form. "I nothing am" itself is
an inversion; "nothing" hints at mote (dust).

Turlygod can be Truly God by changing ur to ru. Poor Turlygod is a curse
by Edgar who disguises himself with filth on his face. "That's something
yet" says the word god in Turlygod isn't reversed yet (like Tom to mot).
Turlygod is a hidden blasphemy.

With similar conversion Edmond can be Demon'd by changing Ed- to De-.
This is supported by Gloucester's description of Edgar as a man often
would say "The Fiend, the Fiend." Edgar calls Edmond fiend eleven times:
"the foul Fiend follows me, . . . Take heed of the foul Fiend."

Anagram is meaningful with support in Shakespeare. It's done by some odd
or seemingly tedious words, a style of Wilton poets.

Within this circle is Jehovah's name,
Forward and backward anagrammatiz'd
. . . [Devils come]
when we hear one rack the name of God -- Doctor Faustus

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