https://freerepublic.com/tag/thetwonoblekinsmen/ en-us Sat, 26 Jun 2021 20:46:18 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3971228/posts The rites and habits associated with ‘midsummer’ clustered around a number of dates in Shakespeare’s time. The June solstice occurs on a day between the 20 and 22 June, but ‘Midsummer Day’ was fixed in the calendar as 24 June (also known as St John’s Day). Midsummer was one of the most popular and keenly-observed festivals throughout the early modern period. Rural communities marked it with Morris dancing, processions, late-night drinking, the blessing of crops and the ritual banishment of devils and other unwelcome sprites – precisely the sort of pagan-originating, Catholic-saint-encompassing mishmash that Protestant reformers despised. But by the... Shakespeare's Globe https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3971228/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jun 2021 20:46:18 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2471914/posts A play which was first discovered nearly 300 years ago has been credited to William Shakespeare. The work, titled Double Falsehood, was written by the playwright and another dramatist, John Fletcher. Theatre impresario Lewis Theobald presented the play in the 18th century as an adaptation of a Shakespeare play but it was dismissed as a forgery. But scholars for British Shakespeare publisher, Arden, now believe the Bard wrote large parts of the play. Researchers think the play is based on a long-lost work called Cardenio, which was itself based on Don Quixote. "I think Shakespeare's hand can be discerned in... BBC https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2471914/posts#comment Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:25:03 GMT