The Shakespeare codes : the sonnets deciphered
By: by David Basch.
Publisher: Revelatory Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: West Hartford, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 634
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Religion.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Cipher.; Sonnets, English -- History and criticism.; Judaism and literature -- England.
First sentence: This book analyzes etc
Description: Details of the discovery of the poet's code and why it eluded so many others. Codes reveal the allegory of the soul that is embodied in the sonnets, with the higher soul represented by the young man and the lower soul represented by the Dark Lady, as outlined in Sonnet 144.
The central code is the very numbering of the sonnets, which, numbers translated into Hebrew letters (1=Aleph, 2=Beth, etc) spell Hebrew words which all too often dictate the theme of the sonnet, e.g., number 18 spell Hebrew word Chai, "life," which is the subject of the poem. 
The book analyzes each of the 154 poems to discern its meaning and the elements of the code represented within it.  All 154 sonnets are presented in the spelling and approximate layout of the original 1609 Publication.
Notes: Includes index.
The Shakespeare Codes TABLE OF CONTENTS 
	Frontispiece 			                           v 
	Coat of Arms 			                           vii 
	List of Quarto Sonnet Facsimiles 	           viii 
	Acknowledgements 	                                    ix 
	Introduction 			                              1 
			PART 1 	
	Chapter 1 	Prologue 		                     11 
r 		Structure of the Sonnets            	     19 
l 		Biographical Thesis 	                             24 
I 		Literary Quality 	                             27 
I 		Allegory Theory 	                             32 
I 	Chapter 2 	Enter Poet 	                       	     37 
I 	Chapter 3 	Meaning 		                     69 
r 	Chapter 4 	The Unfolding 	                     91 
l 		Mysterious Epigraph 	                  134 
	ChapterS 	Friends 		                          143 
( 	Chapter 6 	The Dark Lady 	                  177 
	Chapter 7 	Fresh Numbers 	                  231 
			PART 2 	
	Commentary The Sonnets Deciphered (1-154) 	249 
	The Sonnets 	1609 Quarto Version 	                539 
		APPENDICES 	
	The Hebrew Alphabet 		                                        621 
	Index of First Lines 		                                                627 
	Chronology 			                                                        631