Cracking the Shakespeare Code: The Seven Steps to Mercy - Part 1 | Free Documentary History

[@rruysch]

I think I'd rolled my eyes 10 times by the time Crumption tripped up in the snow. But I fell in love with Amundsen at 'I hope you stay with me until you are terrified.'

[@bryanoflynn5938]

Bloke is definitely questioning himself. You can see it a few times. Gets a shock and goes all fingers in ears

[@adg9726]

Gets way to emotional about it and takes it almost like a personal attack on himself.

[@matthewsatalic2751]

They set this redhead up something fierce. He is the perfect pompous pratt.

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

I'm sure he would be flattered, considering that he's an actor playing a perfect pompous pratt.

[@enlightenedhummingbird4764]

This is a great series. And I love how, once the redhead is past his truth trauma, he's able to enjoy the adventure. Thanks for sharing!

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

It's a very well crafted story. It's not real, but it is well crafted.

[@enlightenedhummingbird4764]

@@Jeffhowardmeade Thank you, oh wise one, for coming along and setting this ignorant child straight.

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

​@@enlightenedhummingbird4764My pleasure.

[@robertservini4976]

I find it difficult to believe just one man wrote so many plays without any help.so many codes in the work amazing

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

Other playwrights of the era were far more prolific than was Shakespeare. Two plays a year was nothing.

[@oldpossum57]

@@Jeffhowardmeade Well, they often wrote plays by committee, with several hands contributing. If you have read plays by the other playwrights, you discover that each has at most one or two that meet his general standard. Shakespeare’s output of good to extraordinary work was just breath taking.. And the year of Lear, MacBeth, Anthony and Cleopatra is astounding. Oddly, the contenders for authorship are men like Oxford. Whoever wrote the plays was a very experienced actor, produced,,playwright. His business partners claimed Shakespeare wrote them. Good enough for me.

[@BoydXplorer]

Nice contents. Interesting to watch. Keep up the good work. 👍

[@SkarponyJoe]

...I enjoyed watching the dudes ego getting utterly destroyed inch by inch, so much so that he just had to get away before he exploded 😂😂😂

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

That's why they included in in the script. This is cynical drama at its basest.

[@sonofculloden2]

Less of a destroyed ego and more of his eyes were opened.

[@leroybrown505]

That young Red head dude is mad heated this gentleman knows something cool about shakespear he doesnt. Jealousy all over the face. A very good example of being educated and being wise.

[@leroybrown505]

@Reality Effect its the reality of today, you have dipshits that go to a ivy school to learn a watered down history than you have someone thats wise who has a open mind and studies 100 differnt materials on the subject. People that go to college are dumb. I went to college to. the teachers were fried, i knew more than them.

[@leroybrown505]

@Reality Effect don’t worry about it, good speaking with you sir. Keep up the good fight.

[@pastparticipant5464]

I love how Crumpton was using his phd as a driving credential over Amundsen and that Venus and Adonis was in his phd...yet he wasnt aware of such a unique and important picture as that in St Alban's!!

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

What PhD? He's an actor, not an actual scholar.

[@-jz5mm]

Really?! ​@@Jeffhowardmeade

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

@@-jz5mm Crumpton is an English actor living in Spain. He's cast whenever they need an American CIA type for a Spanish movie or TV show. He has a fairly substantial social media presence, none of which mentions his doctorate. An actual Shakespeare PhD would have been able to answer the goofy things Amundsen was claiming.

[@sonjak8265]

@@Jeffhowardmeade He says in the film that he is writing a Ph.D.

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

@@sonjak8265 He also says typographical errors were rare in Early Modern printing, which is the exact opposite of the truth. Anyone writing a dissertation relating to Shakespeare would know this. Crumpton is following a script, and his academic credentials are nowhere to be found outside of this program. He is portraying an arrogant scholar so that when he can't answer Amundsen's challenge (as any actual scholar could), it will seem more of a victory. The footage of actual Shakespeare scholars is lifted from programs about Shakespeare. The 53s that seemingly show up coincidentally are staged. This show is a crock from beginning to end.

[@NoLegalPlunder]

In the Merry Wives of Windsor isn’t there an impetuous student named William who has a Welsh teacher? The place where Shakespeare went to school had a Welsh teacher (Jenkin). Some people miss the forest for the trees and like to see connections and codes in everything.

[@meepbeep2908]

Robert Crumption couldn't have appeared any more condescending, pompous, arrogant & wretchedly RUDE! What a S.O.B. His argument doesn't always cut the mustard. At 47 minutes he is shown to be gutted, which was a delightful end to part 1. 😊

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

Then he did his job well, considering he's an actor following a script.

[@Rob-vs8ye]

the "experts" think the truth stops at what they are taught

[@LouielamsonTranNguyen]

Who truly authored Shakespeare's works? Is William Shakespeare a pen name, and do we want to delve into the secrets and darker aspects of his past life? Do we wish to uncover the mysteries and shadowy aspects of William Shakespeare's life, or whether he was indeed a pseudonym?

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

Only if there's evidence, and not hokey codes.

[@rruysch]

Wait... gate 53? That's insane.

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

That's in the script.

[@-jz5mm]

​@@JeffhowardmeadeMr. Howard how do you know this

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

​@@-jz5mmUh... the fact that they emphasized it? Have you ever seen a documentary where the gate number they're flying out of is mentioned twice?

[@tedpaulus]

I subscribe to the fundamentals of the Shakespeare Authorship Question - but these supposed “code breakers” can make anything translate to anything by converting from one code to another code to another number until they eventually find what they want to. Alexander Waugh has applied just as “logical”/“absurd” codes to the same texts show that it was actually Edward de Vere as the secret message

[@rollins4484]

Don't be so hard on Robert, he's acting, teaching through acting, like what that one Rosicrucian expert said about Shakespeare, and I hated his tone but once I understood, I was tipping my hat.

[@Pakylousy]

The arrogance of that red hair guy common , you are not in kindergarten anymore, grow up ... This is soooo exiting , everything he say is interesting !I'm hooked

[@VagueRANT100]

at 53 minutes I was Gobsmacked.......next episode I will be eagerly anticipating 106 minutes,where,oh where will this Divine Comedy lead us?

[@fbaresi1681]

William Shakespeare the actor was the son of illiterate parents and his children were also illiterate. There are only about six records of William Shakespeare's own handwriting, all his signatures which are terrible & it appears that he only learned to write his name. There is no record of William Shakespeare actually owning any books. It is probable that William Shakespeare the actor was also illiterate himself and could not possibly be the author of the works in his name.

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

Not a single thing you wrote is true, except the part about the books. We have no records of anything he owned besides the sword he left his friend and the bed he left his wife. His older daughter was definitely literate and his father was the town mayor and a justice of the peace. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. And his signatures (as well as three pages of a play in his handwriting which you forgot to mention) all look just fine if you can read 16th Century handwriting.

[@johnsmith-eh3yc]

His daughter signed her name Susanna Hall in a neat secretary hand on two occasions years apart but in a similar way. Nothing like a barefaced lie to show conspiracy theorists for what they are. Also his brother Gilbert signed his name neatly as Gilbert Shakespere.

[@johnsmith-eh3yc]

Verdi, the only composer to truly successfully write operas based on Shakespeare, had illiterate parents living centuries after Shakespeare. Illiteracy in a period where most people were illiterate is not a sign of stupidity. Writing comments like yours is

[@oldpossum57]

Your conspiracy nonsense is undercut by factual errors:

[@Alemap120]

Far too many adverts. Impossible to watch… a pity

[@juliusigmond]

Where is Part 4?

[@expressionoffreedom7165]

I wouldn't look at what is possible. Possibilities are endless. You have to get a feel for what precisely the man himself would think. A person's brain does a thing. It leads you places. Yours, mine, and Shakespeare. He had to learn everything piece by piece. He would repeat processes learned as time unfolds. You should not study Shakespeare as a static human being, but rather as an evolving human being. His codes should have improved over time. Maybe I'll spend some time on this myself.

[@veronicabarker1798]

To me, this just shows that Shakespeare and Johnson were close to Bacon, nothing to do with writing his works. Maybe the rosicrutions originated from their friendship? Two of the greatest minds of the time, would it be surprising if they influenced one another?

[@tedpaulus]

This is a game of “Six degrees of Francis Bacon”; one could start with any text and then be up at any famous figure

[@richwhiteman2755]

I love Lord Bacon.

[@phillipsolesky2677]

Cognitive Dissonance seriously settles in at the 47 minute mark. It can be scary.

[@chris.asi_romeo]

Edward De Vere Earl of oxford is the real William Shakespeare.

[@oldpossum57]

Died in 1604, years and years too early. Didn’t know anything about actual stage craft. Hard to square with the 1606 Lear, MacBeth, Anthony and Cleopatra. As with most conspiracy theorists, the Oxford onions seize on confirmatory hints, ignore massive counter evidence. They need to think they are “special”.

[@AlGreenLightThroughGlass]

Put enough letters on a page and you can interpret anything in any way.

[@duderama6750]

Garbage in = garbage out.

[@stephenevans5830]

You’re statement doesn’t reflect the consistency and accuracy of what you consider ‘random’ facts

[@glenndouglas8822]

They have way too much time on their hands in Norway.............

[@danielefail7015]

I was thinking King John the V Shakespeare and was his pen name?

[@Rob-vs8ye]

its at least likely they were all in that RC group

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

There was no RC group in England at that time.

[@grahammilburn4438]

go TO page 22

[@chris.asi_romeo]

I thought it was Ed Sheeran narrating.

[@johnkealy2238]

St. Patrick's Day is also 173, 17th of March. Any connection there or just coincidence? Fr. Luke Wadding introduced St. Patrick's Day & he was a well educated friar who would I'm sure have been aware of the Rosicrucian's.

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

Just coincidence. Nobody numbered months until the 20th Century, and the new year started on March 25 (until 1752), so March wouldn't be the third month anyway.

[@kendallkirkham238]

KZbin made this impossible to watch.

[@nicolarollinson4381]

What difference does it make?

[@nicolarollinson4381]

@Reality Effect fairy snuff

[@nicolarollinson4381]

@Reality Effect Its good to see your passion. Please don't apologise for passion. Shakespeare and his contempories were weavers of stories. ...for entertainment. Take care not to get caught in the web of deception. History, our roots, are a very different matter . All the best, 🤝🏾😊 Don't be blind, keep an open mind ❤

[@TSVTheHive]

@@nicolarollinson4381 says the person who said this was fairy stuff. As a Mason I can tell you its very accurate.

[@nicolarollinson4381]

@@TSVTheHive I was replying to another comment. Fairy snuff- fair enough

[@erik_carter_art]

Lol, the connections made in this are such a stretch. xD Also, the gullibility of people in the comments believing that Crumpton is an actual skeptic? He's obviously playing a role, and he's not even playing it convincingly because he's hamming it up so much. Oh! "hamming"? Ham as in Bacon?! *Cue conspiracy music*

[@Enrique-h6g]

I'm not waiting two more years. One of those you had hacking me even said that's FAR too long.

[@linzalabamaawake5230]

This is exactly why Francis bacon did this.

[@edwardpeterson1634]

The music is too loud and distracting.

[@kathleenmacfarland1817]

GATE 53 😮 WhAaaaaat!?? That was odd eh!

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

If that doesn't tell you the whole thing is faked, what will?

[@rnavgps1470]

So they take their SAS flight out of gate 53 and no one noticed?

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

Only the guy writing the script.

[@differenttakethanmost]

34:40 Sadly, the majority of people have NO interest in being educated or getting educated but always want to be entertained 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

[@OntarioAtOrion]

There is clearly something here, there is evidence

[@redwawst3258]

😊

[@Rob-vs8ye]

no such thing as coincidence.

[@thebrickton1947]

Aemilia Bassano has a connection, for who would know of Italian Court and the nature of the Mediterranean Jewry, in the quagmire of Elizabethan London?

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

If Shakespeare had some connection to Italy, he wouldn't have gotten everything wrong about the place.

[@thebrickton1947]

@@Jeffhowardmeade By your avatare, I see you're invested, and love your mammy proportionately, good for her.

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

​@@thebrickton1947 I do love her memory. And Emilia Bassano never left England, either. He father's family were baptized Christians going back at least three generations. They were from Venice, which was tolerant of Jews, so the Bassano family had no need to pretend to be Christians of they were actually Jewish. Finally, Shakespeare didn't know about the Venitian Ghetto, and thought Shylock was the only Jew in Venice.

[@oldpossum57]

People who kept their ears open. Londoners were fascinated by Venice: wealth, cosmopolitan, debauched, etc. Several small works published about Venice at the time.

[@robertservini4976]

Well he has a Phd surely he cant be wrong😂

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

Since he doesn't actually have one, I suppose he can be a wrong as he wants to be.

[@sonofculloden2]

Nope. It was Bacon and De Vere. The Earl of Oxford had the knowledge and the God given skill.

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

Bacon couldn't crack a joke to save his life, and Oxford was a terrible poet. Just read some of the poems he published under his own name.

[@richwhiteman2755]

@@JeffhowardmeadeDude……. Lord Bacon was the man….

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

@@richwhiteman2755 Just not the funny man. Shakespeare was a very funny man.

[@OntarioAtOrion]

​@Jeffhowardmeade you must have an obsession eh! I've seen you in every comment 😅

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

@@OntarioAtOrion Everyone needs a hobby.

[@thegoldenorder1240]

This is the excact problem with the new generations. A person has an opposing opinion and the guy wants to do nothing but humiliate the other man without question. Absolute garbage opinion driven documentary.

[@Vaquero4382]

Other than academic curiosity, who cares? Why is this "terrifying"?

[@choisica]

See how straw man politics works: a fake antagonist is created, usually arrogant, and a rabble rises to swing at the piñata to get candy while none the wiser to the play

[@marcuslex8654]

Bible code done, Shakesphere done. What next , Cracking Confucius" Code? Good luck with that.

[@duderama6750]

There was something by that DaVinci guy, but it never caught on.

[@Rob-vs8ye]

the ginger is in hard cope

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

The ginger is an actor. He's acting.

[@Rob-vs8ye]

@@Jeffhowardmeade highly doubt it. Hes a stage actor not a screen actor and actual contempt and frustration is hard to fake. You could feel the tension at times between them.

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

@@Rob-vs8ye His film and TV credits are pretty easy to look up. Plus he doesn't have the PhD the character he is playing claims to have, and apparently doesn't know simple things about Early Modern printing practices that any Shakespeare scholar would know. It's a classic con. If the "expert" can be convinced, whatever is claimed must be true!

[@reginald_1458]

​​@@Jeffhowardmeade So this documentary is just a psyop? What's your opinion?

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

@@reginald_1458 The expert is a shill. They pretend it's just a coincidence that they take off from Gate 53. I don't think it's a psyop, I think it's a joke. The producers found this crackpot and decided to make a tongue-in-cheek "documentary" akin to the BBC's 1958 "news" report on the bad spaghetti harvest in Italy. Look that one up. It's a hoot. Like that one, I wouldn't be surprised if this one was originally broadcast on April 1.

[@davidcolley7714]

This channel does come out with the most dire nonsense

[@Auto_Learning]

This dude actually gets mad every time he's forced to open his mind a little.

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

He's just an actor. It's in the script.

[@katherinekinnaird4408]

Does this sound like a bunch of UFO Chasers looking to write a book and get rich off of it

[@jerry18291]

Funny people believe in Shakespeare's seven steps to mercy and yet the Bible and Jesus are full of mercy and yet they're deemed as fairy tales. For that matter there's no proof that Shakespeare ever existed

[@oldpossum57]

Your statement “there is no evidence that Shakespeare existed” is just so stupidly false. He lived c.1564-1616. We have several legal documents which he signed, a great many references, we know his parents, his wife, his kids, his properties, his rentals, his role at the royal court. It is also a fact that the only information we have about your Jesus are anonymous storybooks written by cult members 20-70 years after the man apparently was dead. I suspect there was such a chap. There may well be a non-spurious reference in Josephus…who isn’t above errors or gossip. The man may have been executed. The storybooks definitely contain lots of fantasy fiction: miracles and resurrections are fiction. Thus these are untrustworthy sources. There may be…probably is…some factually accurate bits. But no one knows how to sieve them out. If you poor christians feel so aggrieved by having your storybook so roundly and fairly challenged, why not read something else? A physics textbook would be a good start.

[@Rob-vs8ye]

his phd is utterly worthless

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

Considering he doesn't actually have one and he's just an actor, I agree.

[@Rob-vs8ye]

worst host ever. just rude and in denial with overwhelming evidence to at least connect the two men. how many grains of sand make a mountain buddy?

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

He's an actor following a script. He's not an actual Shakespeare scholar. If you've got your panties in a bunch, it's because you were meant to.

[@Rob-vs8ye]

You realize that host is synonymous with actor right? And yes he is narrating a script written after the fact but reactions are reactions. n​@@Jeffhowardmeade

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

@@Rob-vs8ye Just as long as you understand that nothing in this program is true. If they had brought in an actual Shakespeare scholar and gotten his or her natural reactions, it would have been a much shorter program. The scholar would have explained the truth about 17th Century printing practices, and Petter's "discoveries" would have evaporated.

[@Rob-vs8ye]

​@@Jeffhowardmeadeand by your logic every documentary is fake.

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

@@Rob-vs8ye Depends. Does every documentary hire actors to pretend to be experts and then make false claims? If so, then yes, all docs are fake. If, on the other hand, a doc on astrophysics is hosted by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, who is an actual astrophysicist, and he stating things which are factually correct, then that would not be fake. I don't think you're getting the part where Crumpton is not a Shakespeare PhD, and what he is saying is not true. If he were, he would know that Isaac Jaggard's print shop was using type cast in France, where the language has no W. Hence he used two Vs to make uppercase Ws and ran out of those, hence his use of lowercase Vs to make the rest of the Ws in the poem opposite the engraving of Shakespeare. He would not make the claim that printers circa 1623 rarely made typographical errors, when in fact they would make corrections mid print run, but would still use the misprints, which were too valuable to toss. Books printed in the early 17th Century are typically RIDDLED with errors, and were typeset by teams of compositors who often spelled words different ways. This whole program is faked, right down to Crumpton getting on his flight at Gate 53.

[@inamorata966]

If I was an English person, I'd defend against this surmise with every fiber of my being. As an American who loves Shakespeare's works, I can only say that nothing positive can come from Mr. Amundsen's efforts. If false, he is a hack trying to rile up people enough to sell a few books. If true? A cause for sorrow. I wouldn't want to hear the like of a Lessing or a Faulkner was a fraud, and that their great works were done by someone else.

[@gshell2520]

Francis bacon wrote all of Shakespeare's work and the king james bible he was a 33 degree freemason 💯

[@TSVTheHive]

Not all 33rd degree masons are super heroes. As a Mason i can tell you its a relatively easy thing to be. One need only be a master Mason and join the York right, then the knights Templar. It only takes about a year.

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

They didn't have 33rd degree Masons during Bacon's lifetime. In fact, Masonic guilds were made up of builders. Their "secrets" were mathematical formulae for building walls and arches. They didn't begin admitting non-builders ("Freemasons") until the middle of the 16th Century.

[@oldpossum57]

Nonsense. As anyone who has performed in plays can tell you, stagecraft is something you learn by doing. Shakespeare had lots of practice working in theatres, and knew how to write stuff a small company can act, and what put 17th c. bums in seats. Bacon, devere , Stanley had no such ability. etc In fact, we have a term for “plays” written by people who have no idea how theatre works: “closet dramas”. Most of them are best suited as bum wad for the water closet, or the close stool.

[@gshell2520]

@oldpossum57 none of Shakespeare's children or wife could read or write francis bacon had a group of writers he called the Shakespeare's something I guess u also believe the vaccines were safe and the government loves you and all wars are organic from real events 🥔🧠 now to the freemasons they were infiltrated in the 1700s by the Frank's and Rothschilds illuminati and changed it on the highest levels the same way they have many countries governments up into the modern age 💯

[@elitecol69]

what a load of rubbish

[@karensauer5585]

boring

[@Christyring47]

This dudes ego and closed minded attitude are offensive

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

Complain to the director who told the actor to pretend to be closed-minded.

[@justsoification]

No mention of Edward de Vere the most popular choice apparently. Right at the end of the series a dude says if you have an idea of what you want to see you ll see it. The degree of work required in covering up and revealing the identity of Shakespeare is just ridiculous. The project is trash tv.

[@bruggeman672]

I'm not buying it. Your first example breaks its own rules, as the 'on' isn't vertical but horizontal; I am hoping the rest isn't so demonstrative of twisting facts to suit theories.

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

It's amazing what you can find when you set the bar so low for what constitutes a "discovery".

[@ZZSmithReal]

You love "Shakespeare"? What does that mean? There is little evidence to connect the Stratford man to the works. And you don't need to resort to "codes" to conclude that Oxford is the more likely author. Open your mind there kid.

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

Little evidence? What idiot have you been listening to, and why did you believe it without looking at the mounds of evidence for yourself?

[@oldpossum57]

You just need to be an idiot to promote Bacon, DeVere, Stanley, Marlowe.