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Magi Imaginationis: Imagining Alchemists and Magicians in New Atlantis, The Tempest, and The Alchemist, by D. P. Hurley, 1998
In the epilogue to Shakespeare’s Last Plays Frances Yates not only reaffirms her view that Jonson’s The Alchemist and Shakespeare’s The Tempest offer two conflicting representations of the Renaissance magus, but on the pre-proto-penultimate page she introduces the ghostly figure of Bacon and links him with Shakespeare and ‘the Renaissance Hermetic tradition’. She quickly informs us that she is ‘absolutely convinced that the real author of the works of Shakespeare was Shakespeare’ and expands on her absolute conviction with a cut-and-dried full stop – which is somewhat qualified by the first word of the next sentence: ‘Yet…’. Continue reading
Posted in Academic Papers, Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon, Francis Yates, Shakespeare, The Tempest
Tagged alchemy, Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon, Francis Yates, magic, William Shakespeare
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Precipitous Romeo and Peremptory Petruchio: Two Young Gentlemen of Verona Compared, D. P. Hurley 2007
Romeo and Petruchio, two young gentlemen of Verona, one the hero of a romantic tragedy, the other the hero of a marriage farce, live, and move, and have their being in a similar social and historical setting, so it would not unreasonable to suppose that their paths might have crossed… Continue reading
Machiavelli And His Influence On Shakespeare
Niccolo Machiavelli was born in Renaissance Florence on 3rd May 1469. The Renaissance was a time of renewed classical learning, of discovered continents and rediscovered manuscripts, progress in the arts and sciences, and the expansion of horizons literally and metaphorically. Machiavelli is a good example of a Renaissance Man, a man of many talents; in his life Machiavelli was a diplomat, military commander, historian, political philosopher, poet and comic playwright… Continue reading
The “Anti-Stratfordian” Double Standard
In 2006 another name was added to the list of fellows who were supposedly “the real Shakespeare” and another couple of authors were added to the ignominous bibliography of “anti-Stratfordian” crackpots. Common to all “anti-Stratfordian” hypotheses is the “double standard”, as David Kathman explains in his demolition of the claim that “Neville-was-Shakespeare”. Continue reading
Actors Rehearsing The Merry Wives Of Windsor Boost Cow Milk Production
According to the Daily Telegraph, a group of actors Changling Theatre have been rehearsing scenes from William Shakespeare’s comedy, The Merry Wives of Windsor, in front of a herd of cows and the rehearsals have produced interesting results… Continue reading
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