SOED = The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
Jonathan Bate in his „->Shakespeare MOOC course“ in Lesson 2 on the ->„The Merry Wives of Windsor [MWW] formulated:"... MWW brings us closest to his [Shakespeare's] own origin, the world of his childhood, of his youth of Stratford:
Bates: "Windsor stands for Stratford..."-
In Sublesson 2.8 (Lily‘s Grammar), Bate reflected on the importance of William Shakespeare's learning of Latin in Stratford's Kings Grammar School :
(Bates: a tremendously good school !?“- How does he know?)
The latin grammar scene (Act IV Scene 1) was not yet in Q1(1602), or Q2(1619) , but added only in the First Folio (1623) by Raph Crane (?see ->Blog 208): Experts suppose that the name „William“ stands“ for the Stratford boy…[lines 1908-1913].
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Sir H. Evans : William, How many numbers is in nouns“ [noun: SOED: name of a person]
William: Two
[= Shak sper] =2
[= Shak sper] =2
Mrs Quickly: Truly , I thought there had been one number more, because they say
od’s nouns
„By God’s [Christ’s/Christophers] wounds instead of odd numbers]
[= Sha ke speare] = 3
[Note the wordplay between the confusing abreviated phrase
Sir.H. Evans : Peace your tattlings [SOED : keep silent}
Merely Coincidence? ….Isn' t that an unnoticed key metaphor for the Authorship situation?
od’s nouns
„By God’s [Christ’s/Christophers] wounds instead of odd numbers]
[= Sha ke speare] = 3
[Note the wordplay between the confusing abreviated phrase
Sir.H. Evans : Peace your tattlings [SOED : keep silent}
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Merely Coincidence? ….Isn' t that an unnoticed key metaphor for the Authorship situation?
