19 Jul 2015

(211) Unnoticed autobiographic key scenes of William from Stratford in the " Merry Wives of Windsor"MWW?

….the latin grammar lesson  ("Shak-sper" or "Sha-ke-spear" ) an unnoticed key metaphor of the Authorship situation?



                            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
 
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}

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Merely  Coincidence? ….Isn' t that an unnoticed key metaphor for the Authorship situation?