© Gunnar Tómasson 30 August 2016 Introduction: Plato’s Translator Benjamin Jowett, Theologian (Wikipedia) Benjamin Jowett [1817-1893] was renowned as an influential tutor and administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, a theologian and translator of Plato and Thucydides. He was Master of Balliol College, Oxford. Quotes: Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 30 August 2016 Introduction: Plato’s Translator Benjamin Jowett, Theologian (Wikipedia) Benjamin Jowett [1817-1893] was renowned as an influential tutor and administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, a theologian and translator of Plato and Thucydides. He was Master of Balliol College, Oxford. Quotes: Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 28 August 2016 Overview 1028983 7864 = Jesus Patibilis – Gnostic Passible Jesus 511378 = Edward Oxenford’ letter to Robert Cecil 509741 = Fr. St. Alban‘s Dedication of Essayes 1028983 1000 = Light of the World 1027983 = Shakespeares Sonnets I, II, CILIII, CLIV 1028983 *** I. Jesus Patibilis, […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 27 August 2016 I, Moi, dit le fils, je traduirai Shakespeare. (Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare¹) 282942 11194 = Revenons à Marine-Terrace. 22348 = Un matin de la fin de novembre, deux des habitants du lieu, 13465 = le père et le plus jeune des fils, 13309 = étaient assis […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 26 August 2016 I. And the gates of hell shall not preuaile against it (Matt.16:13-20, King James Bible 1611) 394811 23675 = When Iesus came into the coasts of Cesarea Philippi, 11616 = he asked his disciples, saying, 17235 = Whom doe men say, that I, the sonne of man, am? […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 24 August 2016 I. Victor Hugo: There are men, oceans in reality. (William Shakespeare, 1864, Part I, Bk. I, Ch. II) 727273 12305 = There are men, oceans in reality. 24406 = These waves; this ebb and flow; this terrible go-and-come; 24078 = this noise of every gust; these lights and shadows; […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 16 January 2016 Update 23 August 2016. Introduction A close friend of my parents [Guido Bernhöft] was a very senior member of the Masonic Order in Iceland. I once told him briefly about my work on Creation Myth aspects of the Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Authors of Rome in the 1st century B.C., 13th century […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 22 August 2016 I. Edward Oxenford‘s “Imperfet Booke“ (Letter to Robert Cecil) 511378 9205 = My very good brother, 11119 = yf my helthe hadd beene to my mynde 20978 = I wowlde have beene before this att the Coorte 16305 = as well to haue giuen yow thankes 15468 = […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 21 August 2016 I. The First Heire of Shakespeare’s Inuention (Venus and Adonis, Dedication 1593) 378620 9987 = TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE 20084 = Henrie Vvriothesley, Earle of Southampton, 8814 = and Baron of Titchfield. 21943 = Right Honourable, I know not how I shall offend 23463 = in dedicating my […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 20 August 2016 I. Whom I will trust as I will Adders fang’d (Hamlet, 1611 text – Omitted in First Folio) 182738 Alpha Hamlet: 23984 = Ther’s letters seald, and my two Schoolefellowes, 20414 = Whom I will trust as I will Adders fang’d, 20136 = They beare the mandat, they […]