“Midsummer Madness”, the Month of July
July 1, 2022
Ah Sun-flower! weary of time,Who countest the steps of the Sun?-Seeking after that sweet golden climeWhere the traveller’s journey is done. Where the Youth pined
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Ah Sun-flower! weary of time,Who countest the steps of the Sun?-Seeking after that sweet golden climeWhere the traveller’s journey is done. Where the Youth pined
Jeanne D’Arc or Joan, the Original and Presumptuous… The second in my series of Shakespeare’s “She Wolves” I have featured Joan of Arc who was
It is widely assumed that William Shakespeare was born and died on St. George’s Day, the 23rd of April. However, this too is a misapprehension
Among those specialised subjects that William Shakespeare had some unusual interest in is the medical, herbal and anatomical knowledge which would only have been of
When writing the play “Julius Caesar”, William Shakespeare must have been aware that the Roman Empire, as it then stood, had already reached the zenith
In his book “Shakespeare and Music”, Dr. Edward M. Naylor draws upon 33 plays and four volumes of poetry which make reference to or include
At this rather bleak time of the agricultural year many hedges, gates, walls and fences would be inspected for damage and repaired. The arable fields
There are references to astrology in Edmund Spenser‘s works probably influenced by “Zodiacos Vitae” of someone named Piero Angelo Manzolli of Stellata It seems that
First performed at court on the 26th December, 1604, and like eighteen other plays by Shakespeare only printed when included in the 1623 Folio and
Some researchers say that Twelfth Night was written soon after “As You Like It” and “Hamlet” to be performed a year earlier on the 6th