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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... recognized how vast was Shakespeare's grasp of formal rhetoric and how adroit his facility in using it. Only in the ... recognize these elements in Shakespeare's plays? Surely there were among his first auditors (and readers) men and ...
... recognized how vast was Shakespeare's grasp of formal rhetoric and how adroit his facility in using it. Only in the ... recognize these elements in Shakespeare's plays? Surely there were among his first auditors (and readers) men and ...
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... recognized a Shakespeare who was unflinching, judgmental, and caustic by turn, teasing, loyal, deeply skeptical, politically enlightened, independently minded, rather courageous, goodhearted – irrepressibly, incorrigibly playful – and ...
... recognized a Shakespeare who was unflinching, judgmental, and caustic by turn, teasing, loyal, deeply skeptical, politically enlightened, independently minded, rather courageous, goodhearted – irrepressibly, incorrigibly playful – and ...
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... recognized. Modern historians attribute the murder of Duncan to the night of 13/14 August 1040. On that night, moonset at Dunsinane occurred not at Midnight but at 8:00 p.m. As the chart below illustrates, an observer looking west from ...
... recognized. Modern historians attribute the murder of Duncan to the night of 13/14 August 1040. On that night, moonset at Dunsinane occurred not at Midnight but at 8:00 p.m. As the chart below illustrates, an observer looking west from ...
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... recognize it. In the following chapters I will examine some dozen plays Shakespeare wrote in the interval 1592–1610 – along with relevant historical materials. I will offer a fresh array of insights into an unrecognized level of ...
... recognize it. In the following chapters I will examine some dozen plays Shakespeare wrote in the interval 1592–1610 – along with relevant historical materials. I will offer a fresh array of insights into an unrecognized level of ...
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... recognized his radical map of the solar system (and, by entailment, the insignificance of Earth in the scheme of things cosmic) would puncture the Church dogma which held that Earth and mankind were the centerpiece of Creation. Although ...
... recognized his radical map of the solar system (and, by entailment, the insignificance of Earth in the scheme of things cosmic) would puncture the Church dogma which held that Earth and mankind were the centerpiece of Creation. Although ...
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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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