Paul Adrian Fried

Biblical allusions & plot echoes in Hamlet. Backyard raspberries. Finding ideal key for "It had to be you" on a 21-key autoharp. Resisting reification. He/him

[Paul Adrian Fried @padrianfried]

My book project: biblical allusions & plot echoes in #Shakespeare's #Hamlet, tentatively titled “Hamlet’s Bible.”
Not an evangelical/fundamentalist re: things biblical,
but if you like #earlymodern #literature & the #Bible...
https://t.co/WSbT1EH8Pk

[Paul Adrian Fried @padrianfried]

@tudorfoodrecipe Tudor + Food.
What's not to like? 😉

[Paul Adrian Fried @padrianfried]

6th day of #Christmas, 12/30, if #Shakespeare attended church, what Bible passages heard?

Blog post, featuring readings, vengeful God, shipwrecked Paul (think #Pericles),
& Demetrius!

https://t.co/KsHeWitk55

#twelvedaysofchristmas #bible #history #drama #theatre #literature

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Fifth Day of #Christmas in #church for #Shakespeare's time, Dec. 29 (without #Becket):
Paul and Agrippa (echoes of #Pericles)
and more (blog post)

https://t.co/dQQhyWzyuN

[Paul Adrian Fried @padrianfried]

The 5th day of #Christmas in #Shakespeare's England had been the Feast of Thomas Becket, assassinated in 1170. Henry VIII and the reformation tried to erase him.
Becket allusion in RII...
https://t.co/Dnr1YQ14O2

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4th day of #Christmas, 12/28, Shakespeare’s England observed “Innocents’ Day” recalling the slaughter of infant boys. "Herod" is mentioned 9 times in 4 #Shakespeare plays including #Hamlet and Antony & Cleopatra...
https://t.co/Es5wFCZBTz

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This 3rd day of #Christmas, December 27, in Shakespeare’s time as now, was St. John the Evangelist’s Day.
John's gospel invented "Thomas the doubter" alluded to via Horatio in #Hamlet.
Some thoughts on John, #doubt, and #Shakespeare
(blog post)
https://t.co/1B8LiqVc2z

[Paul Adrian Fried @padrianfried]

2nd day of #Christmas, 12/26, in Shakespeare’s time as now, was the Feast of Stephen, first Christian martyr, with readings about prophet-killers. Motifs support those in #Shakespeare's plays
https://t.co/bLW2HgJBMR

[Paul Adrian Fried @padrianfried]

1st Day of #Christmas for #Shakespeare in church included readings from Luke (early morning prayer) - birth and shepherds - and later, from John: "Word make flesh" and John the Baptist. These motifs come up in surprising ways in Shakespeare's plays
https://t.co/3doDin1WeL

[Paul Adrian Fried @padrianfried]

What a pleasure to be involved in this!
See also my series on the Bible readings in Shakespeare's time for the 12 days
https://t.co/SyLKDbmLps

[New York Shakespeare @NYShakespeare]

Our #ChristmasSpecial is with #scholars Carol Ann Lloyd of @shakeuphistory , the host of the #podcast Royals, Rebels and Romantics, along with independent #scholar Paul Adrian Fried of the #bible based #blog series, @hamletsbible !
.
On the @newyorkshakespeare @youtube channel!

[Paul Adrian Fried @padrianfried]

This was a great pleasure to be involved in.
* Errata: It is Taming of the Shrew that mentions the word "Christmas" once;
Merry Wives mentions "Herod" once...
For more, see my series on the Bible readings in Shakespeare's time for the 12 days
https://t.co/SyLKDbmLps

[New York Shakespeare @NYShakespeare]

NY Shakespeare Spotlight on Education Christmas Special ‘24 with Carol Ann Lloyd & Paul Adrian Fried

https://t.co/3706yM8tt8

We discuss Shakespeare & Christmas with Paul and Carol Ann, including what Christmas was like in Elizabethan England!

@shakeuphistory
@padrianfried

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@aaronkreuter Early modern Protestant Reformation editor prefers poems composed by "faith alone"...
not will (too Catholic) 😉

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@Amanda_Vickery Some lit & academic types have gone to Mastodon, but yes, that does sound a bit like choosing a path of extinction...

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@Amanda_Vickery Adding BSky soon - but
LA Times quotes Lincoln:
When a woman rebuked him for "conciliatory attitude toward the South
which she felt should be “destroyed” after the Civil War
Lincoln said,
"Madam, do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

I'll stay for a bit...

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Reposting to bookmark

[aaron from queens 🇵🇸 @aaronnarraph]

AOC asked her followers who split their ballots either for Trump/her or Trump/downballot Dem to explain why and posted the replies:

[Paul Adrian Fried @padrianfried]

@lisapease I was not old enough to vote yet in 1972, but I did hear that McGovern was shaking hands along the fence outside the Minnesota Governor's mansion on Summit Ave. - I shook McGovern's hand, then ran ahead along the fence to shake it again. He would have been a good POTUS

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@The_Globe Merry Wives
&
Shrew
&
Comedy of Errors

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If you would like a #free copy, RT this post and give us a follow. I will pick a winner at random by the end of the week.

https://t.co/kmng79voZK

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In #Hamlet, the #poison cup of Claudius is a profound violation of #hospitality because it masquerades as a gift, as with the Trojan Horse, and the attempted poisoning of Merlin, St. John, and Theseus.

#Shakespeare #Literature #bible #theater #drama

https://t.co/5QBB70HIdt

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@train2000c @scottgr60613 @mfjlewis @DawnofMercy Yes. But POV. Thought-experiment. From a certain perspective, he is certainly a bodhisattva. Failure to show compassion for that perspective is a failure to abide by Jesus' greatest commandment(s), then