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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... passages in his texts long believed by scholars inscrutable. It has always been my conviction that these interests were two sides of the same coin. Knowing Shakespeare better, we are better equipped to know his plays. Better knowing his ...
... passages in his texts long believed by scholars inscrutable. It has always been my conviction that these interests were two sides of the same coin. Knowing Shakespeare better, we are better equipped to know his plays. Better knowing his ...
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... passages, whole scenes, and plot twists which baffle and confound his cleverest commentators. 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 ...
... passages, whole scenes, and plot twists which baffle and confound his cleverest commentators. 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 ...
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... passages not only resolves famous cruces but casts new light on Shakespeare's mind and method, and illuminates anew even ... passage intelligible only to that handful of the wiser sort who had read Plutarch and knew their Suetonius. In ...
... passages not only resolves famous cruces but casts new light on Shakespeare's mind and method, and illuminates anew even ... passage intelligible only to that handful of the wiser sort who had read Plutarch and knew their Suetonius. In ...
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... passage through parliament of the statutes which constituted Elizabeth's Religious Settlement was one of the Queen's most extraordinary feats of statecraft. Contrived with her Lord Privy Seal Nicholas Bacon and the divine Matthew Parker ...
... passage through parliament of the statutes which constituted Elizabeth's Religious Settlement was one of the Queen's most extraordinary feats of statecraft. Contrived with her Lord Privy Seal Nicholas Bacon and the divine Matthew Parker ...
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... passages are funny – as when Lancelot Gobbo recalls a Black Monday that fell on Ash Wednesday (MV 2.5.22–7). Gobbo's lines are screamingly funny – and sharply satirical – to auditors (and readers) who recognized that Lancelot is ...
... passages are funny – as when Lancelot Gobbo recalls a Black Monday that fell on Ash Wednesday (MV 2.5.22–7). Gobbo's lines are screamingly funny – and sharply satirical – to auditors (and readers) who recognized that Lancelot is ...
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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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