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Steve Sohmerâs book solves literally dozens of Shakespeareâs riddles which have never been solved before. Scholars, editors of the plays, and theatre enthusiasts will find much in these pages to inform, surprise and delight them. -- .

Table of Contents

1. ‘… to please the wiser sort.’: Shakespeare’s other (smarter) audience
2. ‘Doubt thou the starres are fire ….’: the new philosophy in Hamlet
3. ‘The time is out of joint’: Queen Elizabeth’s calendar muddle
4. Shakespeare’s time-riddles in Romeo and Juliet solved
5. ‘Two and fortie houres’: did Shakespeare know Bandello?
6. Disrobing images: Shakespeare rewrites the Holy Ghost
7. The ‘double time’ crux in Othello solved
8. ‘Who’s there?’: the men behind the masks of Falstaff, Faulconbridge, Lamord, and Hamlet

Shakespeare for the Wiser Sort

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 1 October 2007
      ISBN-13 9780719076671
      978-0719076671
      ISBN-10 719076676
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      Literary studies: plays and playwrights

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Steve Sohmerâs book solves literally dozens of Shakespeareâs riddles which have never been solved before. Scholars, editors of the plays, and theatre enthusiasts will find much in these pages to inform, surprise and delight them. -- .

      Table of Contents

      1. ‘… to please the wiser sort.’: Shakespeare’s other (smarter) audience
      2. ‘Doubt thou the starres are fire ….’: the new philosophy in Hamlet
      3. ‘The time is out of joint’: Queen Elizabeth’s calendar muddle
      4. Shakespeare’s time-riddles in Romeo and Juliet solved
      5. ‘Two and fortie houres’: did Shakespeare know Bandello?
      6. Disrobing images: Shakespeare rewrites the Holy Ghost
      7. The ‘double time’ crux in Othello solved
      8. ‘Who’s there?’: the men behind the masks of Falstaff, Faulconbridge, Lamord, and Hamlet

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