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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... observed, a writer of literature must condemn himself to lead a 'counter-life.' Shakespeare did so. And by exercising his prodigious talents with Joycean 'silence and cunning'he thrived by writing for two audiences: one, the great mass ...
... observed, a writer of literature must condemn himself to lead a 'counter-life.' Shakespeare did so. And by exercising his prodigious talents with Joycean 'silence and cunning'he thrived by writing for two audiences: one, the great mass ...
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... observation that the moon set at midnight cannot be correct (see figure). Banquo's gaff has not discomforted Shakespeareans; we were taught our playwright was careless about matters of time and the hour. But we were taught wrong. Though ...
... observation that the moon set at midnight cannot be correct (see figure). Banquo's gaff has not discomforted Shakespeareans; we were taught our playwright was careless about matters of time and the hour. But we were taught wrong. Though ...
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... observations confirmed with ocular proof that the planets were not fire. Therefore, a convert to the new Copernican philosophy could Doubt ... that the starres are fire. Assessing the impact of the Copernicus' cosmology on the wiser ...
... observations confirmed with ocular proof that the planets were not fire. Therefore, a convert to the new Copernican philosophy could Doubt ... that the starres are fire. Assessing the impact of the Copernicus' cosmology on the wiser ...
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... observed their holy days and rituals discreetly – Elizabeth and her ministers were content to look the other way. Her Settlement was the original don't ask, don't tell arrangement. Considering that a succession of popes had declared the ...
... observed their holy days and rituals discreetly – Elizabeth and her ministers were content to look the other way. Her Settlement was the original don't ask, don't tell arrangement. Considering that a succession of popes had declared the ...
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... observed on the Sunday after the first full moon following. Though based on a palpable absurdity, this became the Easter rule of the Catholic Church. Although the Nicaean decree conformed the observance of Easter throughout the Church ...
... observed on the Sunday after the first full moon following. Though based on a palpable absurdity, this became the Easter rule of the Catholic Church. Although the Nicaean decree conformed the observance of Easter throughout the Church ...
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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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