sanderfredman
03-21-2010, 03:00 PM
Hello everyone. Two years ago I ``discovered'' free on the internet the great Professor Lilian Winstanley and her three ``Shakespeare'' books. (In order to join this site I had to delete ``d'' and put in the author of ``Hamlet''. It didn't work with ``de Vere'' so I put in ``Shakespeare''.) In LW's second book ``Macbeth, King Lear & Contemporary History'' (which in part rehashes the earlier Hamlet work re the Darnley murder by Bothwell) she discusses what that Elizabethan/Jacobean audience knew as recent history including Catherine de Medici's murder of Admiral Coligny ``the father of France'' or in the play King Lear, Lear, and some other ``topological'' material. But she also lays out her method of studying these English renaissance plays as akin to the previous century's higher criticism approach to the Bible. (150 years later this higher criticism is still controversial and hc is usually associated with that ``horrible'' ``anti-semite'' Julius Wellhausen.) So, let's have fun.