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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
@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...
@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
They're here!!! Copies for SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS @ManchesterUP have arrived! 🎊🥳🥂
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
@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