[CaptainK]

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[Woebama]

This kind of Shakespeare scholarship is a little bit like prehistoric archeology. They will find a boar’s hair at a dig site and declare that festivals at the equinox were held with suckling pigs as the main course by early man. It would be too dull to report that there was a boar’s hair found at a dig site, or that there are arguably some similarities in cadence or whatever with one version of the Bible and Shakespeare’s writing.

[Jvette]

I took a quiz once that asked which saying was from the Bible and which from Shakespeare. It was tough, but it turned out that many of the quotes from the Bard were easily connected to verses in the Bible.

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	There's been a lot written about Shakespeare's having been, for example, a closet Roman Catholic. In the 18th century a handwritten book was found in the attic of a house formerly owned by John Shakespeare (Will's father), and it was a reaffirmation of Catholic faith; however, the book was subsequently lost or destroyed, meaning it can't now be examined, so it may have been just a tall tale. Kinda puts the kibosh on the idea that neither Shakespeare could read / write though, eh? There's at least as much (probably more) paganism in Shakespeare, and like all his writing, it doesn't say much about what he really thought about things. He incorporated the death in childhood of his only son most poignantly in a sonnet, and wrote at least two plays (Lear and The Tempest) about father-daughter relationships. "Measure for Measure" ends with a sister giving up her vows to get married. pagan references in Shakespeare Google Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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