The Shakespeare Game, Or, The Mystery of the Great PhoenixAlgora Publishing, 2003 - 482 pages Originally published in Moscow, The Shakespeare Game quickly hit Russia's "nonfiction best seller" list. It was an intellectual sensation and went through three editions in the first year. Asking why do we have Shakespeare, and who is Shakespeare, Gililov has studied watermarks and printer's type, registration dates, and documented biographical details of Shakespeares contemporaries, considering the physical evidence as well as the personalities and motives of the suspects. Gililov suggests an answer to the Shakespeare riddle -- one that will delight literature fans and confound the proponents of other "candidate bards." He finds the key in the most mysterious Shakespeare poem, The Phoenix and the Turtle, and the collection in which it was published; he identifies its heroes and reveals the meaning in this shocking requiem and its connection with works by Ben Jonson, John Donne and other great contemporaries of "Shakespeare." Along the way, Gililov probes and refutes the mystification around the court jester Thomas Coryate and numerous other Elizabethan/Jacobean literary oddities. Book jacket. |
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... Earl of Essex 39. Queen Elizabeth I 40. Philip Sidney 248 251 254 41 . A procession with Queen Elizabeth on the occasion of a high society wedding . The fifth from the left is the Earl of Rutland . From the painting by R. Peake . 257 42 ...
... Earl of Essex 39. Queen Elizabeth I 40. Philip Sidney 248 251 254 41 . A procession with Queen Elizabeth on the occasion of a high society wedding . The fifth from the left is the Earl of Rutland . From the painting by R. Peake . 257 42 ...
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... Earl of Essex. Such a hypothesis is based on the assumption that poets and court flatterers often called their queen a phoenix; this practice was usual not only during her lifetime. In the last scene of Shakespeare's “Henry VIII ...
... Earl of Essex. Such a hypothesis is based on the assumption that poets and court flatterers often called their queen a phoenix; this practice was usual not only during her lifetime. In the last scene of Shakespeare's “Henry VIII ...
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... Earl of Essex (1566-1601), considered by many historians not only a favorite but also a paramour of the elderly monarch? The merciless execution of the Earl of Essex after his clumsy, nearly farcical mutiny in the very year of 1601, was ...
... Earl of Essex (1566-1601), considered by many historians not only a favorite but also a paramour of the elderly monarch? The merciless execution of the Earl of Essex after his clumsy, nearly farcical mutiny in the very year of 1601, was ...
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... Essex ( Brown even thinks him an opponent , for after the failure of Essex's mutiny he called the Earl a traitor ) ; in June of the same year , 1601 , he was made a knight . After James Stuart's ascension to the throne , Salusbury left ...
... Essex ( Brown even thinks him an opponent , for after the failure of Essex's mutiny he called the Earl a traitor ) ; in June of the same year , 1601 , he was made a knight . After James Stuart's ascension to the throne , Salusbury left ...
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... Earl of Essex in mind , or under the impression of such events as John Salusbury's marriage or the death of the Countess of Bedford's first son . Zesmer notes that “ more and more scholars are inclined to concentrate their attention on ...
... Earl of Essex in mind , or under the impression of such events as John Salusbury's marriage or the death of the Countess of Bedford's first son . Zesmer notes that “ more and more scholars are inclined to concentrate their attention on ...
Contents
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Chapter 2 A LongStanding Controversy About StratfordonAvon | 91 |
Chapter 3 The Chaste Lords of Sherwood Forest | 227 |
Chapter 4 Thomas Coryate of Odcombe the Worlds Greatest Legstretcher Alias the Prince of Poets | 319 |
Excerpts from the book Coryates Crudities | 359 |
Chapter 5 Death And Canonization Behind the Curtain | 389 |
Chapter 6 For Whom the Bell Tolled | 447 |
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Page 281 - Tired with all these, for restful death I cry: As, to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn, And gilded honour shamefully misplaced, And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted, And right perfection wrongfully disgraced, And strength by limping sway disabled, And art made tongue-tied by authority, And folly doctor-like controlling skill, And simple truth miscall'd simplicity, And captive good attending captain ill.
Page 197 - Your name from hence immortal life shall have, Though I, once gone, to all the world must die. The earth can yield me but a common grave. When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read. And tongues to be your being shall rehearse When all the breathers of this world are dead. You still shall live — such virtue hath my pen — Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.
Page 9 - So between them love did shine, That the turtle saw his right Flaming in the phoenix' sight; Either was the other's mine.
Page 115 - But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry it had so noble a god-father, and never after ear so barren a land, for fear it yield me still so bad a harvest.
Page 55 - Nor shall this peace sleep with her : but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new create another heir, As great in admiration as herself...
Page 250 - Like to the senators of the antique Rome, With the plebeians swarming at their heels, Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in : As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, How many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him ! much more, and much more cause, Did they this Harry.
Page 120 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.