tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283526.post1842124013822428189..comments2024-03-27T14:03:14.775+00:00Comments on Captain JP's log: Shakespeare and the seaJPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09475536270807856327noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283526.post-20777761275979342852011-02-21T22:46:59.555+00:002011-02-21T22:46:59.555+00:00Thanks John, yup, read that book and its reviewed ...Thanks John, yup, read that book and its reviewed <a href="http://captainjpslog.blogspot.com/2010/08/book-review-shakespeare-and-sea.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>:JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10749223049615363296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283526.post-38997965524665239562011-02-21T22:31:50.761+00:002011-02-21T22:31:50.761+00:00I'm coming late to this discussion and recogni...I'm coming late to this discussion and recognize that you've probably moved on. There's a book on just this topic -- Alexander Frederick Falconer, SHAKESPEARE AND THE SEA(London, 1964).In part it's a glossary of sea terms with examples from Shakespeare. It's witty, too. Sonnet 116, "Let me not to the marriage of true minds," is in his hands "a navigational sonnet" with its many references to steering without alteration, and the constancy required to manage a vessel safely at sea. There are copies at ABEBOOKS.COM. -- John RousmaniereJohnPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08543194197694894077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283526.post-7365552614100184712010-07-28T20:18:54.302+00:002010-07-28T20:18:54.302+00:00Well a lot of Will's plays have a number of ju...Well a lot of Will's plays have a number of juicy double entendres if not quite outright rude.<br /><br />Ah that sounds like CleopatraJPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10749223049615363296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283526.post-42691220639287223952010-07-28T04:19:49.326+00:002010-07-28T04:19:49.326+00:00Less than virtuous?Less than virtuous?Baydoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751866865203182109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283526.post-56508608551823491712010-07-28T03:28:49.299+00:002010-07-28T03:28:49.299+00:00In Will's time, the theater was illegal, at th...In Will's time, the theater was illegal, at the whim of the monarch. The Globe recieved patronage, but was mostly for the rabble. <br />Shakespeare probably had many friends who were sailors and we all know of the sailor's virtues ashore...dorymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16077373149267825091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283526.post-30113319836718555282010-07-28T03:11:35.838+00:002010-07-28T03:11:35.838+00:00As great as that sounds, I'm so lost. Green e...As great as that sounds, I'm so lost. Green eggs and ham is much more my speed.Baydoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751866865203182109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283526.post-29787594800982498782010-07-28T01:15:06.094+00:002010-07-28T01:15:06.094+00:00Shaxpur, must have been a nautical cove. Who else ...Shaxpur, must have been a nautical cove. Who else could pen such verse:<br /><br />"Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides,<br />So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes,<br />And made their bends adornings: at the helm<br />A seeming mermaid steers: the silken tackle<br />Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands,<br />That yarely frame the office."Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00146436477175786648noreply@blogger.com