Tag Shakespeare and the Bible
The de Vere Bible annotator underlines three key moments of action in I Samuel 16:23, in which the young David plays on his harp to cure the madness of Saul.
The Blog reports on Richard Waugaman’s influential 2009 and 2010 Notes and Queries articles on the influence of the Sternhold and Hopkins edition of the Psalms in Shakespeare. Visual evidence from the de Vere Geneva Bible shows eight of the Psalms whose influence Waugaman discusses are marked with manicules in the de Vere copy of Sternhold and Hopkins.
The blog responds to Professor Gabriel Egan in his review of my 2000 Notes and Queries article on the influence of the marginal notes of Samuel in Shakespeare.
The post considers the significance of one of the most striking of the de Vere Bible annotations, the annotator’s supplemental correction of the missing pronoun at Romans 7:20.
Why the colorful underlining of Ezekiel 16.49 was a game-changer in the Shakespeare Authorship question.
This Pretty Much Seals It – A Review of Edward de Vere’s Geneva Bible Mark Woodward 5.0 out of 5 stars Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2017 Verified Purchaser If some literate but time-pressed friend were to… Continue Reading →
The Blog entry discusses the startling fact pattern of the de Vere Geneva Bible annotations: almost 2/3 of Shakespeare’s most commonly alluded to Bible references are marked or underlined in the book.