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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... the first Bankside Globe and the world première of Shakespeare's Roman tragedy. I think he would have been pleased; my David and Tully were. ONE 'to please the wiser sort': Shakespeare's other (smarter) audience Preface xv.
... the first Bankside Globe and the world première of Shakespeare's Roman tragedy. I think he would have been pleased; my David and Tully were. ONE 'to please the wiser sort': Shakespeare's other (smarter) audience Preface xv.
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... Roman, French, and English history; heraldry and the martyrology; astrology and astronomy; the calendar and time-keeping. These select few auditors comprised Harvey's wiser sort – and perhaps after encountering Shakespeare they were ...
... Roman, French, and English history; heraldry and the martyrology; astrology and astronomy; the calendar and time-keeping. These select few auditors comprised Harvey's wiser sort – and perhaps after encountering Shakespeare they were ...
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... Roman Inquisition (London: Catholic Truth Society, 1963). 8 Luther's supposed and often-misquoted remark about Copernicus was made four years before the publication of De Revolutionibus. 9 Victor E. Thoren, The Lord of Uraniborg ...
... Roman Inquisition (London: Catholic Truth Society, 1963). 8 Luther's supposed and often-misquoted remark about Copernicus was made four years before the publication of De Revolutionibus. 9 Victor E. Thoren, The Lord of Uraniborg ...
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... Roman 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 ...
... Roman 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 ...
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... Roman's lifetime, it accumulated to a full day every 128 years. By the time the Council of Nicaea met in AD 325, Sosigenes' error had accumulated to three days and the vernal equinox had regressed from 24 to 21 March. This confounded ...
... Roman's lifetime, it accumulated to a full day every 128 years. By the time the Council of Nicaea met in AD 325, Sosigenes' error had accumulated to three days and the vernal equinox had regressed from 24 to 21 March. This confounded ...
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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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