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Showing posts with label William Shakespeare. Show all posts
25 July 2023

C. S. Lewis and William Shakespeare on Vergil

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https://www.worldhistory.org/image/5836/portrait-of-virgil/ Several years back I published a post on echoes of Vergil in Shakespeare ...
01 November 2022

Another Allusion to Macbeth?

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Tolkien quite famously supplanted Shakespeare's humdrum imagining of Birnam Wood coming to Dunsinane with the march of the Ents upon Ise...
28 January 2022

Shakespeare's Silmarillion

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Shakespeare's Silmarillion: Melkor: do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will - Eru: Mine...
13 May 2020

I'll show myself out (RK 6.iii.946)

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'Precious, precious, precious!' Gollum cried. 'My Precious! O my Precious!' And with that, even as his eyes were lifted up ...
18 August 2019

'When winter first begins to bite -- Echoes and Re-echoes of Chaucer at FR 2.iii.273

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In The Road to Middle-earth  Tom Shippey argues (184-85) that the poem Bilbo recites to Frodo in The Ring Goes South 'in ...
19 June 2019

Two -- No, Three Echoes of Vergil

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In Book One of the Aeneid  Venus comes in disguise to visit her son shortly after his battered fleet reaches the shores of North Afri...
07 May 2019

and a spell / his voice laid on her

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Again she fled, but swift he came. Tinuviel! Tinuviel! He called her by her elvish name; And there she halted listening. On...
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10 May 2018

The Bard Reviews 'Avengers: Infinity War'

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Here be spoilers withal: Fear no more the heat o’ the sun, Nor the furious winter’s rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home a...
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26 October 2017

The More You Read, The More Jokes You Get

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Jean Simmons, Laurence Olivier, Hamlet (1948) A friend of mine once told me that the more you read, the more jokes you get. HAMLET: L...
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05 August 2017

'Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?' -- A Shakespearean Túrin

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Alan Lee © 2007 One of the strangest sidelights on the long dark tale of Túrin Turambar is perhaps the following: [F]or indeed t...
17 April 2017

A Head Full of Homer, A Trench Full of Blood

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The comradeship of poetry and war is one of the most ancient relationships humanity knows. They have served together on the plains of...
18 February 2017

Review: Stories about Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth

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Stories about Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth by Brian Attebery My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a good book, no...
28 June 2016

Getting to the Bottom of Celeborn

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'An evil of the Ancient World it seemed, such as I have never seen before,' said Aragorn. 'It was both a shadow and a flame,...
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06 June 2016

In the Dead Marshes We Hear No Larks at Morning

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Paul Nash, We Are Making A New World, Imperial War Museum Since at least the twelfth century larks at morning have featured in Engli...
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15 May 2016

An early intimation of elvish immortality in the South English Legendary?

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Arthur Rackham, from A Midsummer Night's Dream It's common knowledge that as he grew older Tolkien came to despise the silly, d...
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29 June 2014

Negative 3 Mister Darcys, or How I Came to Love √-1

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I have a very good friend who went the extra mile to get two Bachelor's Degrees, one in Math and one in English.  What is more, after th...