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Sonnet Show Hall’s Croft, Sh’s Son-in-Law’s House, Stratford on Avon, June 5th, 2009.
Wednesday 20th May is the 400th anniversary of the publication of the sonnets. Assist me, ye gods of rhyme, for i am for quires of sonnets. I feel a marathon coming on.
This just in from Hannibal Hamlin on a recent Shaksper post concerning SHakespeare’s bible choices:
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Returning to more substantive scholarly matters, there has also been debate about which English Bibles Shakespeare used. Not the KJV, which appeared only in 1611 and didn’t displace the more popular Geneva Bible for another 40-50 years.
Most often, when it can be determined which translation he used (they are very similar in many instances, and some of Shakespeare’s allusions are not specific), he used the Geneva.
Second in frequency is the Bishops’. The Bishops’ was what was read in churches from about 1568.
The Geneva Bible remained more popular, however, and was more often (and cheaply) printed. Shaheen makes the reasonable suggestion that it was Bishops’ that Shakespeare most often heard, and Geneva that he read.
(Arguments have been made for the Catholic Rheims New Testament, but not convincingly, whatever Shakespeare’s personal faith.) Hannibal’
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