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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... calendars. During Shakespeare's lifetime Julius Caesar's old Julian calendar (45 BC ) prevailed in England and in other Protestant enclaves and Greek Orthodox regions. Its rival, the scientifically correct (Catholic) Gregorian reformed ...
... calendars. During Shakespeare's lifetime Julius Caesar's old Julian calendar (45 BC ) prevailed in England and in other Protestant enclaves and Greek Orthodox regions. Its rival, the scientifically correct (Catholic) Gregorian reformed ...
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... calendar and the Julian reform.2 On 1 January 45 BC Julius Caesar had imposed on the Roman world a new solar-based calendar; Caesar's objective was to correct the prevailing lunar-based Roman republican calendar (ca 153 BC ) which was ...
... calendar and the Julian reform.2 On 1 January 45 BC Julius Caesar had imposed on the Roman world a new solar-based calendar; Caesar's objective was to correct the prevailing lunar-based Roman republican calendar (ca 153 BC ) which was ...
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... Julian calendar. By the time the Venerable Bede correctly estimated Sosigenes' error ( AD 730) the date of the vernal equinox had advanced even further – to 18 March. This unrelenting precession led to the bizarre medieval practice of ...
... Julian calendar. By the time the Venerable Bede correctly estimated Sosigenes' error ( AD 730) the date of the vernal equinox had advanced even further – to 18 March. This unrelenting precession led to the bizarre medieval practice of ...
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... Julian calendar. Elizabethan Bibles and prayer books routinely included a calendar in their forepages.5 Like the words of Christ, these were printed in red – because the calendar was thought to be revelatory; its orderly succession of ...
... Julian calendar. Elizabethan Bibles and prayer books routinely included a calendar in their forepages.5 Like the words of Christ, these were printed in red – because the calendar was thought to be revelatory; its orderly succession of ...
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... Julian calendar (and its glaring flaws). To cite one example, in his almanac for 1584 John Harvey explained how the ... calendar of Romulus – how Caesar recruited Sosigenes, and how the 'most puissaunt Captayne, and learned Astronomicall ...
... Julian calendar (and its glaring flaws). To cite one example, in his almanac for 1584 John Harvey explained how the ... calendar of Romulus – how Caesar recruited Sosigenes, and how the 'most puissaunt Captayne, and learned Astronomicall ...
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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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