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Memory and remembrance, what parts do they play in Shakespeare? A veteran of the recent Iraq or Afghani wars may return home with prologues and speeches of Henry the Fifth at his rapping beck and call and recall. Hell one soldier I know of set up OSS while on his tour of duty. […] Here is a post from Shaksper by the inimitable Dave Kathman including a link to a gooogle earth portrayal of the newly found foundations of the THEATRE, the very first in England built for public consumption. Re: SHK 19.0454 The Theatre at Shoreditch Discovered The site of the excavations are visible in a satellite […] …this has to be the best speech in Shakespeare: Click the link and scroll down to see how to make friends and influence Roman people! …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 […] …I’m a shakespeare nut in a huge early modern community. Today’s blog is actual, simple words, without focusing on Shakespeare alone. A link from serendipities brought me back or rather opened me up to the reams of sites out there dealing with Renaissance and Early modern issues. Often these voices are trapped in the gum […] …on what exactly? The writer himself chooses how much of himself he reveals through writing. (Freudians may answer differently on this last sentence). He has a subject and a form in which to explore that subject. The finished product (poem or play) is no longer the writer’s. I, you, we read the finished product and […] 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, […] What follows, and up to enough preamble, is an introduction to the lecture that took place at the Jewish Historical Mueum in Amsterdam on 31st March on behalf of the Menasseh Ben Israel Institute. ‘Surely one of the best-known titles in Western literature is Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. And to associate that title with […] …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 […] |
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