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The aim of this website is to serve as a hub for all my websites and to talk about my online and offline activites. It’s a personal resource site, a diary and photo album and a record of what I’m up to online and offline.
Month: August 2010
Hamlet’s Melancholia
The Elizabethans inherited from the middle ages a view of man’s body as being composed of a mixture of the four elements, earth, water, air and fire, which were supplied by the intake of food. The liver converted food into four different kinds of liquids, or “humours”, which in turn [Read more…]
Machiavelli And His Influence On Shakespeare
This post is based on a lecture I gave to Sekkai O Miru Kai, Hiroshima, 2009. Who Was Machiavelli? Niccolo Machiavelli was born in Renaissance Florence on 3rd May 1469. The Renaissance was a time of renewed classical learning, of discovered continents and rediscovered manuscripts, progress in the arts and [Read more…]
A Review of John Henry’s “Knowledge is Power”
As an introduction to Francis Bacon, his life, philosophy and motivation, John Henry‘s Knowledge is Power: How Magic, the Government and an Apocalyptic Vision Inspired Francis Bacon to Create Modern Science is the best that I have read to date. As the sub-title of this slim but pithy volume intimates, [Read more…]
The “Anti-Stratfordian” Double Standard
In 2006 another name was added to the list of fellows who were supposedly “the real Shakespeare” and another couple of authors were added to the ignominous bibliography of “anti-Stratfordian” crackpots. Every time another candidate is added to the company of pretended authors the already doubtful case that any one [Read more…]