Category Shakespeare Diagnostics
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 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.
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.