2022 Blog Retrospective
Last year was a good year for the “Hamlet’s Bible” blog!
Thank you to all who have read and followed.
My favorite multi-part series to research and write last year were about:
Holy Week/Easter/Emmaus/Pentecost,
Hamlet and Jacob,
Hamlet and the Odyssey, and
“When you are desirous to be blest, I’ll blessing beg of you.”
My favorite single posts were about
the lunar eclipse mentioned in Hamlet 1.1, and
“Poison cups & Martyrs: Gertrude, Medea, and Matt 20:20-24.”
If you want to re-read, or if you’re new to the blog, check it out (link below).
SERIES
Scholarly Biases:
Jan. 11,18,25
Feb 1,8,15,22
March 1,8,15,22,29
April 5,10
Holy Week/Easter/Emmaus/Pentecost:
April 10 Palm Sunday
April 12 Foot-washing
April 14 Eucharistic Allusions
April 15 Good Friday/Passion
April 16 Christ in the tomb, sign of Jonah
April 16 Holy Week (summary/Index)
Easter: Missing Body of Jesus/Polonius - April 19, 26
Emmaus: May 10,12,20,24,26,31
Pentecost: June 6
Elizabeth Jonas:
May 3, 5 - Elizabeth Jonas
Belief in Ghosts:
June 7
June 14
Incestuous Marriages:
June 28,30, July 5,7
Politics in Hamlet via Hankins:
July 12,16
Jacob and Hamlet:
Aug 2; Sept 6,13,20
Hamlet and the Odyssey:
Aug 4,5,6,9,11,16,19,23
"When you are desirous to be blest":
Nov 29; Dec 6,13,20
SINGLE POSTS:
Jan 4 - Hamlet, Christmas, & the liturgical year
Jan 29 Erik VII of Denmark, Hamlet, & Piracy
Feb 6 - McSweeney's "An Oral History of [...] Hamlet"
Feb 26 - Ukraine, Shakespeare, Lincoln, Thoreau
April 30 Hamlet & Batman
May 2 Hobby Horse
May 2 Ghost of Shakespeare
May 16 Lunar Eclipse
June 17 Women & Indian Shakespeares
June 21 Father Figures in Hamlet
June 21 Hamlet's Real or Feigned Grief
July 3 Nicholas Cage & Yorick's Skull
July 9 Fear, Strangers as Angels, (self-)transcendence, the Usefulness of Failure
July 14 Peter Brook on how Victorian traditions get in the way of Shakespeare
July 19 Alcoholic Claudius? J.Wilson
July 23 Pondering Polonius
July 26 Peter Lake on 4 genres in Hamlet
July 28 Hillary Gatti on Bruno and Shakespeare/Hamlet
July 29 "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" Becket, Shakespeare, politics today
July 30 30+ books for 30k views
August 30 Hamlet, Cicero on Conscience
Oct 4 Fortuna & Gambling in Hamlet - Biblical Echoes
Oct 11 Hamlet's Jewish & Christian Reformers
Oct 18 Jan Hus in Shakespeare's Bohemia?
Oct 25 Halloween Hamlet - SCSC in Minneapolis
Nov 1 Tanya Pollard's "What's Hecuba to Shakespeare?"
Nov 5 Meeting D.Shuger, R.Strier, N.Terpstra at SCSC
Nov 8 Hamlet ≠ Orestes; Gertrude ≠ Hecuba nor Clytemnestra
Nov 10 Niobe's Tears and the Nemion Lion's Nerve (Redux)
Nov 15 John Yamamoto-Wilson on "Quietus" & Suicide in Hamlet
Nov 22 "The rest is silence": Musical Notation & Hamlet
Dec 21 Christmas & the sweep of incarnation narratives in Hamlet
Dec 27 Poison cups & Martyrs: Gertrude, Medea, and Matt 20:20-24
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Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
- Mary Oliver,
from section 4 of the poem, "Sometimes,"
from her book, Red Bird, published by Beacon Press, 2008.
https://poetrying.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/sometimes-mary-oliver/
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IMAGES: See image credits for all images including the complex collage elements, at respective blog posts. All images public domain via Wikipedia unless otherwise noted.
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Disclaimer: If and when I quote or paraphrase bible passages or mention religion in many of my blog posts, I do not intend to promote any religion over another, nor am I attempting to promote religious belief in general; only to explore how the Bible and religion influenced Shakespeare, his plays, and his age.
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Thanks for reading!
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My current project is a book tentatively titled Hamlet’s Bible, about biblical allusions and plot echoes in Hamlet.
Below is a link to a list of some of my top posts (“greatest hits”), including a description of my book project (last item on the list):
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/12/top-20-hamlet-bible-posts.html
I post every week, so please visit as often as you like and consider subscribing.
To find the subscribe button, see the = drop-down menu with three lines in the upper left.
Thank you to all who have read and followed.
Holy Week/Easter/Emmaus/Pentecost,
Hamlet and Jacob,
Hamlet and the Odyssey, and
“When you are desirous to be blest, I’ll blessing beg of you.”
My favorite single posts were about
the lunar eclipse mentioned in Hamlet 1.1, and
“Poison cups & Martyrs: Gertrude, Medea, and Matt 20:20-24.”
If you want to re-read, or if you’re new to the blog, check it out (link below).
SERIES
Scholarly Biases:
Jan. 11,18,25
Feb 1,8,15,22
March 1,8,15,22,29
April 5,10
Holy Week/Easter/Emmaus/Pentecost:
April 10 Palm Sunday
April 12 Foot-washing
April 14 Eucharistic Allusions
April 15 Good Friday/Passion
April 16 Christ in the tomb, sign of Jonah
April 16 Holy Week (summary/Index)
Easter: Missing Body of Jesus/Polonius - April 19, 26
Emmaus: May 10,12,20,24,26,31
Pentecost: June 6
Elizabeth Jonas:
May 3, 5 - Elizabeth Jonas
Belief in Ghosts:
June 7
June 14
Incestuous Marriages:
June 28,30, July 5,7
Politics in Hamlet via Hankins:
July 12,16
Jacob and Hamlet:
Aug 2; Sept 6,13,20
Hamlet and the Odyssey:
Aug 4,5,6,9,11,16,19,23
"When you are desirous to be blest":
Nov 29; Dec 6,13,20
SINGLE POSTS:
Jan 4 - Hamlet, Christmas, & the liturgical year
Jan 29 Erik VII of Denmark, Hamlet, & Piracy
Feb 6 - McSweeney's "An Oral History of [...] Hamlet"
Feb 26 - Ukraine, Shakespeare, Lincoln, Thoreau
April 30 Hamlet & Batman
May 2 Hobby Horse
May 2 Ghost of Shakespeare
May 16 Lunar Eclipse
June 17 Women & Indian Shakespeares
June 21 Father Figures in Hamlet
June 21 Hamlet's Real or Feigned Grief
July 3 Nicholas Cage & Yorick's Skull
July 9 Fear, Strangers as Angels, (self-)transcendence, the Usefulness of Failure
July 14 Peter Brook on how Victorian traditions get in the way of Shakespeare
July 19 Alcoholic Claudius? J.Wilson
July 23 Pondering Polonius
July 26 Peter Lake on 4 genres in Hamlet
July 28 Hillary Gatti on Bruno and Shakespeare/Hamlet
July 29 "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" Becket, Shakespeare, politics today
July 30 30+ books for 30k views
August 30 Hamlet, Cicero on Conscience
Oct 4 Fortuna & Gambling in Hamlet - Biblical Echoes
Oct 11 Hamlet's Jewish & Christian Reformers
Oct 18 Jan Hus in Shakespeare's Bohemia?
Oct 25 Halloween Hamlet - SCSC in Minneapolis
Nov 1 Tanya Pollard's "What's Hecuba to Shakespeare?"
Nov 5 Meeting D.Shuger, R.Strier, N.Terpstra at SCSC
Nov 8 Hamlet ≠ Orestes; Gertrude ≠ Hecuba nor Clytemnestra
Nov 10 Niobe's Tears and the Nemion Lion's Nerve (Redux)
Nov 15 John Yamamoto-Wilson on "Quietus" & Suicide in Hamlet
Nov 22 "The rest is silence": Musical Notation & Hamlet
Dec 21 Christmas & the sweep of incarnation narratives in Hamlet
Dec 27 Poison cups & Martyrs: Gertrude, Medea, and Matt 20:20-24
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
- Mary Oliver,
from section 4 of the poem, "Sometimes,"
from her book, Red Bird, published by Beacon Press, 2008.
https://poetrying.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/sometimes-mary-oliver/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
IMAGES: See image credits for all images including the complex collage elements, at respective blog posts. All images public domain via Wikipedia unless otherwise noted.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Disclaimer: If and when I quote or paraphrase bible passages or mention religion in many of my blog posts, I do not intend to promote any religion over another, nor am I attempting to promote religious belief in general; only to explore how the Bible and religion influenced Shakespeare, his plays, and his age.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thanks for reading!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
My current project is a book tentatively titled Hamlet’s Bible, about biblical allusions and plot echoes in Hamlet.
Below is a link to a list of some of my top posts (“greatest hits”), including a description of my book project (last item on the list):
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/12/top-20-hamlet-bible-posts.html
I post every week, so please visit as often as you like and consider subscribing.
To find the subscribe button, see the = drop-down menu with three lines in the upper left.
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