Shakespeare Anagram

An anagram is when you take a word or phrase and rearrange the letters to form another word or phrase.

Take, for example, this title:

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

It consists of 36 letters: 2 T’s, 2 H’s, 6 E’s, 1 C, 3 O’s, 2 M’s, 2 P’s, etc.

Rearrange those same letters in a different order, change the punctuation, and you find yourself with this:

Spoke poems of a white male hack writer sell.

Or, if you’re a bigger fan than that…

He ekes a life’s work well past compare to him.

Get the idea?

Every Saturday, or whenever the mood strikes me, I’ll anagram a different passage from Shakespeare.

Do these anagrams reveal hidden truths about the original passage? Is this a secret code hidden by the author to reveal his true identity? Did a supreme force guide Shakespeare’s hand and leave these messages for us to find today?

I don’t think so. But I think they’re a lot of fun, and I hope you enjoy them.

Jump right in!