{"id":260,"date":"2007-07-07T18:27:51","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T22:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/shakespeare-anagram\/"},"modified":"2008-09-07T22:12:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T02:12:15","slug":"shakespeare-anagram","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/shakespeare-anagram","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Anagram"},"content":{"rendered":"

An anagram is when you take a word or phrase and rearrange the letters to form another word or phrase.<\/p>\n

Take, for example, this title:<\/p>\n

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Rearrange those same letters in a different order, change the punctuation, and you find yourself with this:<\/p>\n

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Spoke poems of a white male hack writer sell.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Or, if you’re a bigger fan than that…<\/p>\n

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He ekes a life’s work well past compare to him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Get the idea?<\/p>\n

Every Saturday, or whenever the mood strikes me, I’ll anagram a different passage from Shakespeare.<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

I don’t think so. But I think they’re a lot of fun, and I hope you enjoy them. <\/p>\n

Jump right in!<\/a><\/p>\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-260","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/260\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}