And Thereby Hangs a Tale': The Memoirs of an Arse Poetica

For 50 years, from 1593 to 1643, a man in Ireland led seven lives. He was, at the same time, legally dead, a murderer, an iron monger, a statesman, a husband and father, the bi-sexual lover of Sir Walter Raleigh, and the writer Shakespeare.

This man died without revealing his identity. But he left a diary that verifies the biographical particulars he planted in the Shakespeare plays. And, because he wanted someday to be known, he hid the key to his identity in plain sight-in the Shakespeare First Folio engraving and facing verse.