Shakespeare for the wiser sort
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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 Cymbeline

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eBook - PDF

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 Cymbeline

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9780719076671
eBook ISBN
9781526135124
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism of Shakespeare
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Front matter
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. Contents
  5. List of illustrations
  6. Preface
  7. ‘to please the wiser sort’: Shakespeare’s other (smarter) audience
  8. ‘Doubt thou the starres are fire’: The new philosophy in Hamlet
  9. ‘The time is out of joint’: Queen Elizabeth’s calendar muddle
  10. Shakespeare’s time-riddles in Romeo and Juliet solved
  11. ‘two and fortie houres’: Did Shakespeare know Bandello?
  12. Disrobing images: Shakespeare rewrites the Holy Ghost
  13. The ‘double time’ crux in Othello solved
  14. ‘Who’s there?’: The men behind the masks of Falstaff, Faulconbridge, Lamord, and Hamlet
  15. Appendix
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index

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