The Little Cryptogram A Literal Application to the Play of Hamlet of the Cipher System of Mr. Ignatius Donnelly.

"The Little Cryptogram" by Joseph Gilpin Pyle is a commentary that inspects a code system from Ignatius Donnelly to Shakespeare's "Hamlet." It goes into a debate that Shakespeare's plays hold concealed clues hinting at the real author as maybe being Lord Bacon. Pyle looks at Donnelly's ways and examples of unveiling a code through "Hamlet," and shows how certain words are changed through substitutions to decode messages. Pyle is doubtful about Donnelly's claims and highlights the weirdness in such cryptographic investigations. He makes a case for literary review of Shakespeare while wondering about the reliability of mystery meanings.