The Royal Shakespeare Company is to stage all 37 of the Bard’s plays at

Stratford-upon-Avon from next April.

Incidentally, though it is a fact widely known only among us numerologists,

Shakespeare wrote, or at least translated, some of the Bible. There are

plenty of clues.

Take the 46th Psalm, for instance, as rendered in the 1610 King James Bible. The 46th word in the psalm is “shake.” The 46th word back from the end of the psalm (and not counting the ritual “Selah”) is “spear.” How old was Shakespeare in 1610? He was 46! Q.E.D.