Roger Stritmatter | November 29, 2009
Welcome to Shake-Speare’s Bible.com. Our topic is Shake-speare’s Bible. The one he owned. Really. No joke. To learn what that means, please visit the “about” page. Every once in a while, we diverge to consider other topics in intellectual history — lately, the intense and exciting developments in online news and debate over the resurgence [...]
Roger Stritmatter | November 11, 2011
David played the secret chord. That’s what we’re going to look for in the Bard. The secret chord. He took David for his example. “Set your whole delight” in God’s wisdom, urged his uncle Arthur Golding in dedicating his 1571 translation of the psalms to him. “Occupy yourself day and night, to lay it [...]
Roger Stritmatter | October 1, 2011
In the most recent of the series of my Notes and Queries articles on Shakespeare and the Bible, I analyzed the significance of Ecclesiasticus 28.3-5 as a core Bible verse for Shakespeare, one mentioned in some form in at least five different plays, most prominently The Tempest. Notes and Queries didn’t ask for a picture, [...]
Roger Stritmatter | June 15, 2011
“Shakespeare lived a life of allegory. His works are comments on it.” These words by John Keats, perhaps the greatest English poet after Shakespeare, distill the essence of authentic Shakespearean biography — as distinct from the seemingly never-ending parade of sham biographies inflicted year after year on an unsuspecting public. In 21st century literary circles [...]
Roger Stritmatter | April 22, 2011
Something is rotten in the state –Hamlet One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. –A.A. Milne I began with a desire, common enough in my profession, to speak with the dead. Much to my surprise, and much against my will, they spoke back. To my dismay, I [...]
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