The Shakespeare Game: The Mystery of the Great PhoenixAlgora Publishing, 2003 - 500 pages Gililov, Secretary of the Russian Academy of SciencesOCO Shakespeare Committee, sets out in intricate detective-novel detail why he believes the fifth Earl of Rutland and his wife actually wrote most of Shakespeare''s work." |
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... dedicated to the traditional topic of the Phoenix bird, or as just an example of so-called “Renaissance Neo-Platonism.” Such a simplified approach, though, is not uncommon in Shakespeare studies, when vague literary and historical facts ...
... dedicated to the traditional topic of the Phoenix bird, or as just an example of so-called “Renaissance Neo-Platonism.” Such a simplified approach, though, is not uncommon in Shakespeare studies, when vague literary and historical facts ...
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... dedicated to the very mysterious Turtle and Phoenix. Before we start our travels through the maze that this strange volume presents (where only strict methodology and a quest for truth may serve as Ariadne's thread) one should recollect ...
... dedicated to the very mysterious Turtle and Phoenix. Before we start our travels through the maze that this strange volume presents (where only strict methodology and a quest for truth may serve as Ariadne's thread) one should recollect ...
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... dedicated to their godly benefactor. But first the Phoenix asks the Turtle some not so easy questions: “What is the difference betwixt false love and true Sincerity?” And: “What may we wonder at? O where is learning? Where is all ...
... dedicated to their godly benefactor. But first the Phoenix asks the Turtle some not so easy questions: “What is the difference betwixt false love and true Sincerity?” And: “What may we wonder at? O where is learning? Where is all ...
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... dedicated to mysterious heroes hidden under bird - mask pennames to a weak poem by the nearly unknown Chester , but they preceded their works with paeans performed by a whole poetic chorus ! The telling signature , the solemn tone of ...
... dedicated to mysterious heroes hidden under bird - mask pennames to a weak poem by the nearly unknown Chester , but they preceded their works with paeans performed by a whole poetic chorus ! The telling signature , the solemn tone of ...
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... dedication to John Salusbury . In the acrostics of the first section , the author's name is linked to two female names ... dedicated to their marriage in 1586 ; he had to close his eyes to the title of the book , which was not at all ...
... dedication to John Salusbury . In the acrostics of the first section , the author's name is linked to two female names ... dedicated to their marriage in 1586 ; he had to close his eyes to the title of the book , which was not at all ...
Contents
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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 |
The Unknown Shakespeare | 1 |
Foreword and Acknowledgements | 5 |
Chapter 1 Robert Chesters Mysterious Birds | 7 |
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 |
Index | 482 |
Chapter 6 For Whom the Bell Tolled | 447 |
Common terms and phrases
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Popular passages
Page 419 - Triumph, my Britain! Thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time...
Page 419 - Yet must I not give Nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Page 418 - The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise ! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
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 286 - And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes. Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes; And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.
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 418 - Euripides, and Sophocles to us; Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage ; or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.
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.