Category Shakespeare and the Bible
Part II of Jonathan Jackson’s “Moral and Spiritual Vision of Edward de Vere.”
Eastern Christianity remains the most poetical and art-affirming of Christian traditions, developing an ethos that is much closer to the spirit of Shakespeare than seen in the western Churches. Was there significant influence from this earlier Christian tradition that helped the poet transcend the most polemical elements of the Catholic-Protestant conflict?
Originally posted By knitwitted on December 7, 2012 Per Naseeb Shaheen Biblical References in Shakespeare’s Plays (1999, 2011) pp. 38-39: “The vast majority of Shakespeare’s biblical references cannot be traced to any one version, since the many Tudor Bibles… Continue Reading →
The post includes high resolution photos of de Vere’s 4th Danvers Escheat letter, which includes the proverb, “finis coronat opus,” “the end crowns the work.” The proverb is repeated with variation in Shakespeare at least three times.
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 entry contests the facile and mistaken argument that Edward de Vere is not the annotator of his own Bible, using photographic evidence of handwriting and underlining in two of the three major ink types in the Bible.
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.