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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... Sunday Pascha verum and the observed Easter Sunday Pascha usitatum. In an effort to resolve this embarrassing confusion, in 1472 Pope Sixtus IV engaged the German arithmetician Johann Müller to reform the calendar. But the issue was ...
... Sunday Pascha verum and the observed Easter Sunday Pascha usitatum. In an effort to resolve this embarrassing confusion, in 1472 Pope Sixtus IV engaged the German arithmetician Johann Müller to reform the calendar. But the issue was ...
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... Sunday upon the last daye of Aprill: And Fastings even upon the twenty foure of Ianuary: Whereas after the vulgare maner and count, Easter daie was celebrate that yeare, the sixteenth daie of Aprill; Whit Sunday, the fourth of Iune: And ...
... Sunday upon the last daye of Aprill: And Fastings even upon the twenty foure of Ianuary: Whereas after the vulgare maner and count, Easter daie was celebrate that yeare, the sixteenth daie of Aprill; Whit Sunday, the fourth of Iune: And ...
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... . Worse, the Elizabethans' date of the Annunciation fell on the Catholic Palm Sunday. Worst of all, the true Easter, 11 April 1599 Gregorian, fell on the date the English observed April Fools' 22 Shakespeare for the wiser sort.
... . Worse, the Elizabethans' date of the Annunciation fell on the Catholic Palm Sunday. Worst of all, the true Easter, 11 April 1599 Gregorian, fell on the date the English observed April Fools' 22 Shakespeare for the wiser sort.
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... Sunday as Elizabethans and Jacobeans did. Nor do the majority of us accept the Old Testament or the Gospels as literal, infallible history. To varying degrees Shakespeare's contemporaries believed in magic, witchcraft, numerology, and ...
... Sunday as Elizabethans and Jacobeans did. Nor do the majority of us accept the Old Testament or the Gospels as literal, infallible history. To varying degrees Shakespeare's contemporaries believed in magic, witchcraft, numerology, and ...
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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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