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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... later chapter I will show that Shakespeare had read Digges carefully and quotes another of his books, Stratioticos (1595), as a previously unrecognized source of Othello.11 While Digges'infinite universe and Copernicus' solar system ...
... later chapter I will show that Shakespeare had read Digges carefully and quotes another of his books, Stratioticos (1595), as a previously unrecognized source of Othello.11 While Digges'infinite universe and Copernicus' solar system ...
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... Later that year the Act of Uniformity restored the Protestant prayer book of 1552. But Elizabeth wisely permitted a number of Catholic practices to persist, e.g. candles on the altar, episcopacy, the appareling of priests. Outwardly ...
... Later that year the Act of Uniformity restored the Protestant prayer book of 1552. But Elizabeth wisely permitted a number of Catholic practices to persist, e.g. candles on the altar, episcopacy, the appareling of priests. Outwardly ...
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... later chapter, from a very early stage in his authorial career William Shakespeare stood something apart from the principal organized religions of his era, their dogmas, doctrine, and peculiar passions.18He was remarkably tolerant for ...
... later chapter, from a very early stage in his authorial career William Shakespeare stood something apart from the principal organized religions of his era, their dogmas, doctrine, and peculiar passions.18He was remarkably tolerant for ...
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... later chapter in this book and Martha Tuck Rozett, The Doctrine of Election and the Emergence of Elizabethan Tragedy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984). 15 For another perspective see James C. Bryant, Tudor Drama and ...
... later chapter in this book and Martha Tuck Rozett, The Doctrine of Election and the Emergence of Elizabethan Tragedy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984). 15 For another perspective see James C. Bryant, Tudor Drama and ...
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... later, Pius V summoned mathematicians to Rome to study the problem; he died before they submitted their recommendation. It fell to Pius' successor, Gregory XIII (1502–85), to complete the work and promulgate a new calendar two months ...
... later, Pius V summoned mathematicians to Rome to study the problem; he died before they submitted their recommendation. It fell to Pius' successor, Gregory XIII (1502–85), to complete the work and promulgate a new calendar two months ...
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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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