In the ninth verse of The Pheonix and the Turtle, Shakespeare wrote: So betweene them Love did shine, That the Turtle saw his right, Flaming in the Pheonix sight; Either was the other’s mine In his Commentary on Plato’s Symposium, Ficino had written on the effect of love, about a [Read more…]
Noda received the 2007 Cock’s-Eye 3-Player Mahjong Trophy at Kodama jansou on Friday 18th January. This years trophy is in the likeness of a hawk louring on a rock, or a craggy outcrop, or a tree trunk or something. It replaces the misplaced “Bull” trophy* and is a particularly fine piece. [Read more…]
I happened to mention to Mrs Wada that I was off to England in February and would be staying at Barnham Broom Golf and Country Club. Now, I never said anything about playing any golf, I merely said that I would be staying there. But Mrs Wada, who happens to [Read more…]
Is there a secret cypher buried in the First Folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays, or hidden on his epitaph? If such a cypher exist, does it show that Bacon wrote the plays? The rules governing cyphers must be unambiguous, the solution grammatically and semantically coherent. Two cryptanalysts working independently should [Read more…]
Mr Noda has blown it! Last January he was presented with the Cockseye Three-Player Mahjong Trophy, an earthenware statue of a bull, which was his to keep for the year (view the report, here). At the end of the year he was supposed to hand it back in to the [Read more…]
New Year’s Day is not the day to visit Itsukushima Shrine on Miyajima Island, if you want to avoid the crowds. It used to be a good day to visit if you wanted to see lots of Japanese ladies kitted out in kimonos, but there was hardly a kimono in [Read more…]
This afternoon, I finished the eighth chapter of C. L. Barber‘s Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy, titled “Rule and Misrule in Henry IV“. The chapter is polished off with a splendid paragraph which crackles with insights that both sum up and point beyond the discussion just concluded. “Historically, Shakespeare’s drama can be [Read more…]
I have nearly finished C. L. Barber‘s, Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy. I came across a remarkable passage today, on the 210th page, which refers to the way in which the Elizabethans thought about the relation between a man and the name of the role he performed in the “divinely ordained pageant” [Read more…]
Romeo is lovesick for Rosaline until Mercutio persuades him to gatecrash their enemy, Capulet’s, party. Romeo promptly falls for Capulet’s daughter, Juliet, scales a wall, approaches Juliet’s balcony and is well met by moonlight. A conniving Friar secretly marries them the morning after. Romeo intervenes in a sword fight, inadvertently [Read more…]
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