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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
In the brief sixth scene of the second act of Romeo and Juliet, while Romeo and Friar Laurence await the arrival of Juliet, Friar Laurence offers offers up this orison, expressive of a certain anxiety about the clandestine nature of the marriage ceremony: “So smile the heavens upon this holy [Read more…]
Here are some extracts from my current reading of C. L. Barber’s Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy that I found of particular interest, either because of what was written or how it was written, or, best of all, both together. “No figure in the carpet is the carpet. There is in the [Read more…]
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