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…sounds like the beginning of a fairytale instead of a series of 154 sonnets. But we don’t know for sure if he intended to write a series of 154 sonnets. I believe he did, but then i would, to support the things I’m about to outline. See circular thinking is so easy to do. […] …a blog beginning with g. Now I’m no Richard crookback but G has some serious portent in Shakespeare. Let’s put it to use as an exclamatory, Gee-up and this post can begin anew. I’m a reader, and a writer, and a speaker. You too i’m guessing. Early on in life i’d ponder why some words […] …or a spiritual telescope directed inwards. Shakespeare was born in the same year as Galileo. He was to literature what the latter was to science. Yet one belonged to the traditions of the past and the other the future. The pre-scientific age was in its final stages. How important this is when studying Shakespeare! Shakespeare […] Renaissance Rhetoric – an instrument of Social control? Do we possess or are we possessed by Shakespeare? A. Mortimer (no relation to Hotspur’s antagonist) has written a book called ‘Variable Passions’. These questions arise from the briefest of perusals therein. The artist always fights and subverts the norms of his time. I assume (i know, […] …this book excited me because it confirmed my own thinking on his thinking. I approach Shakespeare’s writing primarily from a linguistic starting point, and only then from a literary stand point. Obviously we cannot know how he spoke what he wrote, but he tells us he might easily have spoken what he wrote. ‘for if […] …here is a short essay on whether ideas arise spontaneously or are influenced by earlier ideas. Ask the English if the Dutch helped out at the Spanish Armada? Or Herr Gutenberg where his movable type press idea came from: ‘Johannes Gutenberg’s development, in mid fifteenth-century Mainz, of printing with movable metal type was enormously […] …Robert S. Miola ISBN 0-19-871169-7 (paperback) O.U.P. The newest scholarship on the subject is presented in this book. Your humble thief, who learned from the best, remains determined to steal from the best, when his best is not good enough. So here for your edification is a tieved summary of the introduction and final chapters […] Sublime Shakespeare. Let’s talk about Longinus, as rude and scary as that sounds. His name actually may have been Dionysius or Longinus, or Dionysius Longinus. Historians, working on the accepted method of establishing an author, are unsure as to which name is really his. This argument could as easily been discussed in Sh’s time; as […] …also never suggested that it was someone other than the Stratford boy. He offered this ‘plan de campagne’ for understanding Sh. Something yours truly takes to heart. Understanding Shakespeare: ‘He who desires to understand Shakespeare truly must understand the relations in which Shakespeare stood to the Renaissance and the Reformation, to the age of Elizabeth […] …it’s official. He’s come out strong, flying his colours, planting himself on the side of Orthodoxy and the historical record as it stands. His sources in England, in Stratford, of the staunchest orthodox scholarship, as represented by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust scholars in residence, Drs. Stanley Wells and Paul Edmondson. His sources throughout are excellent, […] |
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