The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.0635 Tuesday, 5 April 2005
[1] From: Robin Hamilton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 1 Apr 2005 17:24:30 +0100
Subj: Re: SHK 16.0622 Words Ending in eth/th (Psalm 46)
[2] From: Peter Bridgman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 1 Apr 2005 22:22:49 +0100
Subj: Re: SHK 16.0622 Words Ending in eth/th
[3] From: Bob Linn <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 01 Apr 2005 15:23:04 -0500
Subj: Re: SHK 16.0622 Words Ending in eth/th
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From: Robin Hamilton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 1 Apr 2005 17:24:30 +0100
Subject: 16.0622 Words Ending in eth/th (Psalm 46)
Comment: Re: SHK 16.0622 Words Ending in eth/th (Psalm 46)
David Basch <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
> I gather this from the
> finding of his name embedded in Psalms, a finding that is well known and
> kicking around for many years and even mentioned in one of Rudyard
> Kipling's short stories.
Not so.
From the SHAKSPER archives:
(http://www.shaksper.net/archives/2000/0391.html):
>From: Jay Johnson <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
>Date: Tuesday, 22 Feb 2000 15:48:37 -0700
>Subject: 11.0379 Fire
>Comment: Re: SHK 11.0379 Fire
>
>Syd Kasten asks:
>
> "Did Kipling mention the Psalm xlvi thing?"
>
>No, there is no mention of the Psalm 46 thing in Kipling's "Proofs of
>Holy Writ." In that story, we watch Shakespeare and Jonson work on
>Isaiah 60:1-3 and 19-20.
For the Kipling text:
http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_proofs1.htm
Robin Hamilton
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From: Peter Bridgman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 1 Apr 2005 22:22:49 +0100
Subject: 16.0622 Words Ending in eth/th
Comment: Re: SHK 16.0622 Words Ending in eth/th
John Briggs writes ...
>The answer to that is that Shakespeare did not 'translate' the Psalms.
>The Psalms were translated into English before he was born.
Long before. The earliest English translations being the Glossed
Psalter (9th century), the Paris Psalter (c. 900), a complete Old
Testament in Anglo-Norman (early 14th century), and the West Midland
Psalter (1340-50).
Peter Bridgman
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From: Bob Linn <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 01 Apr 2005 15:23:04 -0500
Subject: 16.0622 Words Ending in eth/th
Comment: Re: SHK 16.0622 Words Ending in eth/th
So, David Basch is in agreement with Bill Arnold. Is there a figure of
speech, more precise than irony, for this state of affairs?
Bob Linn
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