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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... to other of his Friends, whom if you need, can bee your guides ... (John Hemminges and Henry Condell,To the Great Variety of Readers, First Folio of 1623) Contents List of illustrations xi Preface xiii 1 'to please Epigraph.
... to other of his Friends, whom if you need, can bee your guides ... (John Hemminges and Henry Condell,To the Great Variety of Readers, First Folio of 1623) Contents List of illustrations xi Preface xiii 1 'to please Epigraph.
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... reading' rather than taught courses. From the thousands of disparate quotations and allusions which litter his plays we can deduce that Shakespeare was a prodigious reader. Though his course of reading was, Preface.
... reading' rather than taught courses. From the thousands of disparate quotations and allusions which litter his plays we can deduce that Shakespeare was a prodigious reader. Though his course of reading was, Preface.
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... reader. Though his course of reading was, perhaps, selfdirected, it was colossal – witness his vocabulary: unique words in Shakespeare total more than 17,000 (many of his own invention) – four times the vocabulary of today's average ...
... reader. Though his course of reading was, perhaps, selfdirected, it was colossal – witness his vocabulary: unique words in Shakespeare total more than 17,000 (many of his own invention) – four times the vocabulary of today's average ...
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... readers. The thirty-five plays they assembled and published in 1623 had entertained three generations of Englishmen ... reading and rereading – and that a reader who doesn't embrace Shakespeare must not understand him? And why, rather ...
... readers. The thirty-five plays they assembled and published in 1623 had entertained three generations of Englishmen ... reading and rereading – and that a reader who doesn't embrace Shakespeare must not understand him? And why, rather ...
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... i'th'face againe. But those that understood him, smil'd at one another, and shooke their heads: but for mine owne part, it was Greeke to me. (382–8)6 1 The only certainties were that readers of the First 'to please the wiser sort' 3.
... i'th'face againe. But those that understood him, smil'd at one another, and shooke their heads: but for mine owne part, it was Greeke to me. (382–8)6 1 The only certainties were that readers of the First 'to please the wiser sort' 3.
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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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