© Gunnar Tómasson 26 March 2016 I. Am I my brother’s keeper? (Genesis, Ch. 4:1-12, KJB 1611) 588380 21260 = And Adam knew Eue his wife, and shee conceiued, and bare Cain, 15467 = and said, I haue gotten a man from the LORD. 11861 = And she againe bare his brother Abel, 10721 = […]
© Gunnar Tómasson Good Friday 25 March 2016 I. Heauen and earth shall passe away, but my wordes shall not passe away. (Matt. 24:25-36, KJB 1611) 588380 10844 = Behold, I haue told you before. 17089 = Wherefore, if they shall say vnto you, 16966 = Behold, he is in the desert, goe not foorth: […]
© Gunnar Tómasson Maundy Thursday 24 March 2016 I. An Hymn on the Nativity of My Saviour (Ben Jonson) 347949 16707 = An Hymn on the Nativity of My Saviour 16062 = I Sing the Birth, was born to Night, 13211 = The Author both of Life, and Light; 11200 = The Angels so […]
© Gunnar Tómasson Palm Sunday 20 March 2016 I. Marlowe’s Translation of Ovid’s Amores (Book 1, Elegia 15) 298870 Alpha 22773 = Envie, why carpest thou my time is spent so ill, 20689 = And tearmes my works fruits of an idle quill? 20588 = Or that unlike the line from whence I sprong, 19712 […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 19 March 2016 Background The most vexing and ambiguous of Shakespeare’s plays (Joan Carol Oates) Troilus and Cressida, that most vexing and ambiguous of Shakespeare’s plays, strikes the modern reader as a contemporary document—its investigation of numerous infidelities, its criticism of tragic pretensions, above all, its implicit debate between what is essential in […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 17 March 2016 I. Read, and declare the meaning. (Omega page, First folio, 1623) 1031151 [Posthumus] 16581 = Make no collection of it. Let him shew 15289 = His skill in the construction. Lucius 6498 = Philarmonus. Soothsayer 6928 = Heere, my good lord. Lucius 9000 = Read, and declare the meaning. […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 16 March 2016 I. The Natiuity of Christ (Luke 2:1-14, KJB 1611) 605272 Summary 17929 = Augustus taxeth all the Romane Empire: 11302 = The natiuitie of Christ: 16419 = one Angel relateth it to the shepherds: 13753 = many sing praises to God for it. 2:1-14 13790 = And it came […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 15 March 2016 I. The Ides of March are Come. I Cæsar, but not gone. (Act III, Sc. i – First Folio) 1541770 4916 = Flourish. 24433 = Enter Cæsar, Brutus, Cassius, Caska, Decius, Metellus, 25886 = Trebonius, Cynna, Antony, Lepidus, Artimedorus, Publius, 8352 = and the Soothsayer. Cæsar […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 14 March 2016 I. The Abomination of Desolation (Matt. Ch. XXIV, KJB, 1611) 2366233 Summary 23745 = Christ foretelleth the destruction of the temple: 20362 = what, and how great calamities shall be before it: 17017 = the signes of his comming to iudgement. 17937 = And because that day and houre […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 13 March 2016 I. Cæsar: He is a Dreamer, let us leaue him: Passe. (Julius Cæsar, Act I, Sc. i – First folio) 438550 30535 = Enter Cæsar, Antony for the Course, Calphurnia, Portia, Decius, Cicero, 31949 = Brutus, Cassius, Caska, a Soothsayer: after them Murellus and Flauius. Cæsar 4922 = Calphurnia. […]
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