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Opus 5: Richard III
After the events of 1471, King Edward IV seemed more secure on his throne than any English monarch in several decades. A king in such a position can afford to be munificent. Now that the House of York had won out, Edward strove for reconciliation with eve
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Opus 4: Henry VI, Part 3
King Henry I know not what to say; my title's weak. The years after the Battle of St. Albans were a time of surface calm and secret plotting in and around the English royal court. Queen Margaret, who was proving to be a far stauncher defender of her husba
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Opus 3: Henry VI, Part 2
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, had been slowly turning from friend to foe of Henry VI ever since Henry allowed Gloucester's wife Eleanor to be arrested and imprisoned for witchcraft and treason. The Treaty of Tours proved to be the last straw. Gloucester c
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Opus 2: Henry VI, Part 1
Although there is much that we don't know about William Shakespeare the man, we can say confidently that he was not an individual who liked to be typecast. Right after completing his Comedy of Errors, a play so thin it threatened to blow away on the meres
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A Portrait of the Bard as a Young Man
We know more about the life of William Shakespeare than a lot of people think, but less than we would like. There is ample documentation of his commercial career as the most popular London playwright of his era. It comes in the form of notices, commentari
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Opus 1: The Comedy of Errors
Dromio S. Master, shall I be porter at the gate? Adriana Ay; and let none enter, lest I break your pate. Beginnings can be funny things. Before the Beatles could commence transforming pop and rock music in earnest, they had to make their first album Pleas
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Introduction: At Long Last, the Bard
A couple of anecdotes to start us off: Twenty years ago, I and the woman who is now my wife were in that early-to-middle, feeling-out phase of courtship, when the talk turns to existential matters of life and death, art and religion. I told Dorte - that b
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Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading
Baer, Elizabeth. The Golem Redux: From Prage to Post-Holocaust Fiction. Wayne State University, 2012. Banville, John. Doctor Copernicus. Secker & Warburg, 1976. Bell, Jim. The Space Book. Sterling, 2018. The Bible: Authorized King James Version with Apocr
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Epilogue: Infinity Embraced
Nicolaus Copernicus, Giordano Bruno, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, and Galileo Galilei were all to one extent or another hounded and harried during their lives by political and religious conflicts. All faced their deaths under less than ideal conditions,
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Chapter 15: The Trial of Galileo
By mid-1632, the swirling chaos of the Thirty Years War had reached all the way to the western edge of the European continent, drawing in Spain and France. As it expanded in scope, the war had less and less to do with earnest questions of religion and mor
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