Shakespeare for the wiser sort: Solving Shakespeare's riddles in The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, King John, 1-2 Henry IV, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Othello, Macbeth, and CymbelineManchester University Press, 30 de jul. de 2018 - 208 páginas William Shakespeare’s plays are riddled with passages, scenes and sudden plot twists which baffle and confound the most devoted playgoer and the most attentive commentator. Why, for example, didn’t Hamlet succeed to the throne of Denmark at the instant of his father’s death? (It’s not because the Danish throne was elective.) Why does Chorus in Romeo and Juliet promise his audience ‘two houres trafficke of our stage’ when the play obviously runs almost three hours? How is it that Old Hamlet sent his son to school in (Protestant) Wittenberg but his Ghost was sent to (Catholic) Purgatory? and is there cause-and-effect here? How can Lancelot Gobbo be correct (and he is) when he claims Black Monday (the day after Easter) and Ash Wednesday (the 41st day before Easter) once fell on the same day? And what is a ‘dram of eale’? This engaging and lucid book solves these tantalizing riddles and many others. |
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... December 1594 (Julian) 29 Sunset at Ephesus, 28 December 1594 (Julian) 29 Looking east–northeast at Ephesus, 28 December 1594 (Julian) 30 Preface For twenty years my principal interest in the study List of illustrations.
... December 1594 (Julian) 29 Sunset at Ephesus, 28 December 1594 (Julian) 29 Looking east–northeast at Ephesus, 28 December 1594 (Julian) 30 Preface For twenty years my principal interest in the study List of illustrations.
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... December of that year) her Settlement is both politically pragmatic and an enlightened social masterstroke. It would bestow upon England decades of (relative) religious tolerance. After thirty years of religious strife, Elizabeth's ...
... December of that year) her Settlement is both politically pragmatic and an enlightened social masterstroke. It would bestow upon England decades of (relative) religious tolerance. After thirty years of religious strife, Elizabeth's ...
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... December), too – as the anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ.4 But the Church would soon discover that Caesar's calendar was imperfect. Sosigenes' estimate of the length of the solar tropical year – 365.25 days – was too long by ...
... December), too – as the anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ.4 But the Church would soon discover that Caesar's calendar was imperfect. Sosigenes' estimate of the length of the solar tropical year – 365.25 days – was too long by ...
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... December Elizabethan Protestants observed the Feast of Saint Thomas. But they knew that the rest of Europe (and their Catholic recusant neighbors) had already celebrated Christmas, St Stephen's Day, and Holy Innocents, and were ...
... December Elizabethan Protestants observed the Feast of Saint Thomas. But they knew that the rest of Europe (and their Catholic recusant neighbors) had already celebrated Christmas, St Stephen's Day, and Holy Innocents, and were ...
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... , a calendar – look in the almanac, find out moonshine, find out moonshine. Quince Yes, it doth shine that night. (3.1.48–51) Looking east–northeast at Ephesus: Gemini rising on 28 December 1594 26 Shakespeare for the wiser sort.
... , a calendar – look in the almanac, find out moonshine, find out moonshine. Quince Yes, it doth shine that night. (3.1.48–51) Looking east–northeast at Ephesus: Gemini rising on 28 December 1594 26 Shakespeare for the wiser sort.
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Shakespeares timeriddles in Romeo and Juliet solved | 36 |
Did Shakespeare know Bandello? | 55 |
Shakespeare rewrites the Holy Ghost | 77 |
The double time crux in Othello solved | 106 |
The men behind the masks of Falstaff Faulconbridge Lamord and Hamlet | 127 |
Appendix | 166 |
Bibliography | 174 |
Index | 187 |
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