COMING DECEMBER 5TH, 2024
BOOK THREE
ANONYMOUS AGNOSTIC ANTICHRIST
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While working on the manuscript written by Thomas Watson - Anonymous Agnostic Antichrist, Books One and Two - getting to the point where Watson joined the English military and found himself with the same militia as his friend and fellow author Robert Greene, I discovered that Watson’s story came to an abrupt end. Despite the fact that his version of how he was the true author of the Shakespeare Canon was much longer than the one I had read and worked on in 2023 that referred to Thomas Sackville and the 13 other writers, it ended fairly early in his life, at the age of 29 in 1584.
Not only did it end abruptly but I soon found out the remaining part of the manuscript was not only not written by Watson but the story changed to being about someone else: the Jacobean and Caroline dramatist John Ford. This last part of the manuscript - what is here Book Three - was apparently written by Ford in addition to being about him as the true author of the Shakespeare Canon.
I was confused, because the anonymous individuals that I met with and who convinced me that the Watson manuscript was the correct one and the not the previous about Sackville and the others, did not talk at all about this. They made it clear the manuscript covered Watson’s life from beginning to end and there was no mention whatsoever of John Ford, that Watson’s story would end abruptly at the age of 29 despite a lengthy and intimate personal journey, and that there was this third version of who the true author of the Shakespeare Canon was.
At the beginning of this manuscript for Ford's story was this:
To all who may read this, in the present and in the future,
I wrote this story you are about to read towards the end of my life, in the early 1640’s, after having removed myself from London and the theater world, the hustle and bustle of city life - which ironically happened right before the theaters were shut down by the Puritans in 1642 - returning to my home in Bagtor in the parish of Ilsington, Devon. What you will read here is the truth of what happened, please believe me, I tell no lies in this tale. If you come across the manuscripts written by Watson and Sackville claiming their versions of the story are fact, suffice it to say, they are not.
Kind regards,
Sincerely,
John Ford
I tried to contact the anonymous individuals that reached out to me, both in 2022 and in 2024, but the accounts associated with them no longer existed and even the home I went to that supposedly belonged to the famous historian now belonged to another family. I had no way of finding out who was telling the truth.
Whatever is the truth of what happened back then, who was/were the true authors of the Shakespeare Canon, after my 30 years of research, my experiences these past few years with these historical documents and the people who gave them to me, I am still uncertain. It continues to be a mystery.
What I do feel very strongly about, is that despite it being an unsolved case, the journey is still worth embarking on. There is a richness, a depth, an expansive breadth of experiences and insights that perhaps might not be there if the mystery was actually solved.
It is of course up to you, the Reader, to decide for yourself what version, what tale, which adventure, makes the most sense to you and which you connect with the most.
December 5th, 2024,
Derek Hunter
BOOK THREE
ANONYMOUS AGNOSTIC ANTICHRIST
PRE-ORDER THE KINDLE VERSION BY
CLICKING HERE
(THE PAPERBACK AND HARDCOVERS WILL BE AVAILABLE THE DAY OF)
While working on the manuscript written by Thomas Watson - Anonymous Agnostic Antichrist, Books One and Two - getting to the point where Watson joined the English military and found himself with the same militia as his friend and fellow author Robert Greene, I discovered that Watson’s story came to an abrupt end. Despite the fact that his version of how he was the true author of the Shakespeare Canon was much longer than the one I had read and worked on in 2023 that referred to Thomas Sackville and the 13 other writers, it ended fairly early in his life, at the age of 29 in 1584.
Not only did it end abruptly but I soon found out the remaining part of the manuscript was not only not written by Watson but the story changed to being about someone else: the Jacobean and Caroline dramatist John Ford. This last part of the manuscript - what is here Book Three - was apparently written by Ford in addition to being about him as the true author of the Shakespeare Canon.
I was confused, because the anonymous individuals that I met with and who convinced me that the Watson manuscript was the correct one and the not the previous about Sackville and the others, did not talk at all about this. They made it clear the manuscript covered Watson’s life from beginning to end and there was no mention whatsoever of John Ford, that Watson’s story would end abruptly at the age of 29 despite a lengthy and intimate personal journey, and that there was this third version of who the true author of the Shakespeare Canon was.
At the beginning of this manuscript for Ford's story was this:
To all who may read this, in the present and in the future,
I wrote this story you are about to read towards the end of my life, in the early 1640’s, after having removed myself from London and the theater world, the hustle and bustle of city life - which ironically happened right before the theaters were shut down by the Puritans in 1642 - returning to my home in Bagtor in the parish of Ilsington, Devon. What you will read here is the truth of what happened, please believe me, I tell no lies in this tale. If you come across the manuscripts written by Watson and Sackville claiming their versions of the story are fact, suffice it to say, they are not.
Kind regards,
Sincerely,
John Ford
I tried to contact the anonymous individuals that reached out to me, both in 2022 and in 2024, but the accounts associated with them no longer existed and even the home I went to that supposedly belonged to the famous historian now belonged to another family. I had no way of finding out who was telling the truth.
Whatever is the truth of what happened back then, who was/were the true authors of the Shakespeare Canon, after my 30 years of research, my experiences these past few years with these historical documents and the people who gave them to me, I am still uncertain. It continues to be a mystery.
What I do feel very strongly about, is that despite it being an unsolved case, the journey is still worth embarking on. There is a richness, a depth, an expansive breadth of experiences and insights that perhaps might not be there if the mystery was actually solved.
It is of course up to you, the Reader, to decide for yourself what version, what tale, which adventure, makes the most sense to you and which you connect with the most.
December 5th, 2024,
Derek Hunter
