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the longest word…

…could never be day. No in the Sonnets we are looking at a writer with an inventive vocabulary. A word as we learned can be anywhere from 1-5 syllables long. If you’re not sure of what a syllable is, bol-locks, that’s two. And interesting because where is the divide between the two?

But let’s move […]

The goal…

… is to achieve an examination of the punctuation of Q1609 Sonnets to show how it would affect a Jacobethan reader’s experience. It is not to try and recapture Shakespeare’s experience as writer and persona in the Sonnets. His love is history.

But he was representative of his peers in how he […]

From Fairest Creatures…

…sounds like the beginning of a fairytale instead of a series of 154 sonnets. But we don’t know for sure if he intended to write a series of 154 sonnets. I believe he did, but then i would, to support the things I’m about to outline. See circular thinking is so easy to do.

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10 sonnets begin with A.

185 words begin with A

7 sonnets begin with B

213 words begin with B

2 sonnets begin with C

227 words begin with C

1 sonnet begins with […]

Notes from a PALM PILOT…

…made back in 2001.

GK Knight- The Mutual Flame.

‘every person or thing in shakespeare is expressed as a being of eternal rights: the soul-life of each is touched,…every least person…enjoys this royalty… shares in this elixir, is known by the atman, or divine spark within’.

Creating every bad a perfect best…114.8

What more […]

ever write a post for each letter…

…of the alphabet. My mindless blogging quest fulfilled quite soon. Focus and fulfillment, now where would a Sh stand on that subject ya think? Use of intellect in creating distraction of the intellect is the purpose of theatre in it’s basic form. Or is there a higher purpose, ya think?

You make a decision to […]

Who’s faffing about here?

Now that’s what i love about returning to the homeland, the lizard-brained ear picks up on anomalies of language like when i were a child, a likkle boy. Faffing is one of those words. It could be spelt pfaff for all i know, i doubt it. Our family had a variant in the word fuffy, […]

10th Britgrad Conference

next weekend at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford on Avon. (approx 11:30 am Sat 21st june) Yours truly will be delivering a paper entitled:

A Prosodic Odyssey: Sorting the sonnets from page to stage.

10 years ago I completed my post-grad diploma thesis on Q1609 sonnets. Being a bear of little-brain I sought help from […]

13 Extant copies of Q1609…

it all started with a mail to Shaksper, the online scholarly discussion group since 1992, asking if all 13 copies had ever been collated to look for variants in the printed texts.

The answer is: Yes, Hyder Rollins did in 1944 for his Variorum edition.

Hardy Cook, who is the master of that Shaksper […]

White Magic…

…or a spiritual telescope directed inwards.

Shakespeare was born in the same year as Galileo. He was to literature what the latter was to science. Yet one belonged to the traditions of the past and the other the future. The pre-scientific age was in its final stages. How important this is when studying Shakespeare!

Shakespeare […]