© Gunnar Tómasson 23 April 2016 Background – Nicholas Rowe (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718) was the first editor of William Shakespeare, modernising the punctuation and spelling to the practice of his day. His edition, published in 6 volumes in 1709, was a first in a number of ways: The first edition in octavo, […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 23 April 2016 I. Better Angel tempted from sight (Shakespeares Sonnet # 144, 1609) 247021 18697 = Two loues I haue of comfort and dispaire, 23229 = Which like two spirits do sugiest me still, 14249 = The better angell is a man right faire: 20540 = The worser spirit a woman […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 21 April 2016 Prologue Shakespeare’s play, Richard III, opens with the title character’s soliloquy, where the bright tone of the first 13 lines is in vast contrast with the dark tone of the next 27 lines. As here construed, this serves to identify Richard III as HOMO ANATOMICUS. The temptation of Jesus […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 20 April 2016 Saga Reference Value For Shakespeare Authors 522714 284574 = Alpha – Njála Section on Christianity¹ 133709 = Omega – Gylfaginning – Gangleri’s Homecoming² 104431 = Edda – Epigraph, Uppsala Manuscript³ 522714 I. Edward Oxenford (Hidden Poetry) 522714 1 = Monad 4335 = Kristr 7000 = Microcosmos – […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 19 April 2016 I. The Saga Foundation of Shakespeare Myth (Brennu-Njálssaga, Ch. 100, M.) 284574 12685 = Höfðingjaskipti varð í Nóregi. 13112 = Hákon jarl var liðinn undir lok, 16425 = en kominn í staðinn Óláfr Tryggvason. 13917 = Urðu þau ævilok Hákonar jarls, 19696 = at Karkr þræll skar hann á […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 18 April 2016 I. Shakespeares Sonnets (1609) 1027983 Alpha – I and II 19985 = From fairest creatures we desire increase, 18119 = That thereby beauties Rose might neuer die, 16058 = But as the riper should by time decease, 15741 = His tender heire might beare his memory: 22210 = But […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 17 April 2016 I. Nicholas Rowe Poet Laureate – First “biographer” of Will Shakspere: The Golden Verses Of Pythagoras, 1707. (Concluding section.) 658933 22268 = Man, wretched Man, thou shalt be taught to know, 23953 = Who bears within himself the inborn Cause of Woe. 16941 = Unhappy Race! that never yet […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 16 April 2016 I. Excellent writers in her Majesties time (Henry Peacham, Minerva Britanna, 1622) 261465 30826 = And in her Majesties time that now is are sprung up an other crew 30622 = of Courtly makers Noble men and Gentlemen of her Majesties servauntes, 28403 = who have written excellently well […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 15 April 2016 Background Christopher Marlowe and Christopher Morley In Shakespeare Myth, the imagery of Jesus being tempted by The Devil in Matt. Ch. IV is cast in terms of Poet Christopher Marlowe and diabolical Christopher Morley. In Stratfordian scholarship, this essential duality of Man – part Spirit and part Earth […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 13 April 201 I. Tandem Divulganda Finally these things must be revealed (Minerva Britanna, Emblem # 38, 1622) 122122 6877 = Tandem Divulganda 19292 = The waightie counsels, and affaires of state, 21324 = The wiser mannadge, with such cunning skill, 17779 = Though long lockt up, at last abide the fate, 16292 […]
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