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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... funny – and sharply satirical – to auditors (and readers) who recognized that Lancelot is conflating the two calendars. How there came to be two rival calendars in Europe 'The time is out of joint': Queen Elizabeth's calendar muddle.
... funny – and sharply satirical – to auditors (and readers) who recognized that Lancelot is conflating the two calendars. How there came to be two rival calendars in Europe 'The time is out of joint': Queen Elizabeth's calendar muddle.
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... reading of Caesar, Plutarch, Ovid, and Cicero, Shakespeare knew a good deal about the Roman calendar and the Julian reform.2 On 1 January 45 BC Julius Caesar had imposed on the Roman world a new solar-based calendar; Caesar's objective ...
... reading of Caesar, Plutarch, Ovid, and Cicero, Shakespeare knew a good deal about the Roman calendar and the Julian reform.2 On 1 January 45 BC Julius Caesar had imposed on the Roman world a new solar-based calendar; Caesar's objective ...
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... readers with a detailed history of Caesar's calendar while cheekily printing the rival Julian and Gregorian calendars side-by-side – as an aid to travelers, so they claimed.10 These ubiquitous paperbacks gave literate Englishpersons a ...
... readers with a detailed history of Caesar's calendar while cheekily printing the rival Julian and Gregorian calendars side-by-side – as an aid to travelers, so they claimed.10 These ubiquitous paperbacks gave literate Englishpersons a ...
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... readers to 'have recourse to Suetonius ... to the fyrst booke of Macrobius Saturnalia, or to an Epistle of S. Iherome directed ad Eustochium ... which are all copious in this argument' (Harvey Biiiv). This bibliographical reference ...
... readers to 'have recourse to Suetonius ... to the fyrst booke of Macrobius Saturnalia, or to an Epistle of S. Iherome directed ad Eustochium ... which are all copious in this argument' (Harvey Biiiv). This bibliographical reference ...
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... readings in the Book of Common Prayer had read this passage that very morning. John 15 was the Gospel reading for St Barnabas Day, 11 June. Because the English lived by Caesar's outmoded Julian calendar, 11 June was the Summer Solstice ...
... readings in the Book of Common Prayer had read this passage that very morning. John 15 was the Gospel reading for St Barnabas Day, 11 June. Because the English lived by Caesar's outmoded Julian calendar, 11 June was the Summer Solstice ...
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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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