© Gunnar Tómasson 7 March 201 I. Creation – Jesus and Judas (Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Myth) 278222 262982 = Horace’s Monument¹ 1000 = Light of the world 7000 = Microcosmos – Creation/Man in God’s Image 7240 = Judas Iscariot 278222 II. Let them kill sacrifices – The way to dusty death (Isaiah, 29:1-12, KJB, 1611, and […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 6 March 2016 I. William Shakespeare – Three Memorial Poems (First folio, 1623) 962698 (a) But crown’d with Lawrell, live eternally (L. Digges) 6556 = TO THE MEMORIE 9775 = of the deceased Authour 10757 = Maister W. Shakespeare. 21339 = SHAKE-SPEARE, at length thy pious fellowes give 27690 = […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 4 March 2016 Foreword “I am haunted by the conviction that the divine William is the biggest and most successful fraud ever practised on a patient world.” Henry James. „No one in Shakespeare’s lifetime or the first two hundred years after his death expressed the slightest doubt about his authorship.“ Jonathan Bate. A […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 3 March 2016 Stay Passenger, Why goest thou by so fast? (Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon) 129308 19949 = STAY PASSENGER WHY GOEST THOU BY SO FAST 22679 = READ IF THOU CANST WHOM ENVIOUS DEATH HATH PLAST 24267 = WITH IN THIS MONUMENT SHAKSPEARE: WITH WHOME 20503 = QUICK NATURE DIDE WHOSE […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 2 March 2016 A Monumental “Art of the Fugue” (Giorgio de Santillana) This is meant to be only an essay. It is a first reconnaissance of a realm well-nigh unexplored and uncharted. From whichever way one enters it, one is caught in the same bewildering circular complexity, as in a labyrinth, for […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 1 March 2016 An Overview – Hamlet’s Mill (Giorgio de Santillana) This is meant to be only an essay. It is a first reconnaissance of a realm well-nigh unexplored and uncharted. From whichever way one enters it, one is caught in the same bewildering circular complexity, as in a labyrinth, for it […]