Twelve Days of Christmas in churches of Shakespeare's Time (series index)

This blog post will be expanded as the series unfolds to include posts on each of the Twelve Days of Christmas and the Bible readings in English churches of Shakespeare's time, as noted in the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer.

1. Christmas Day (the first day of Christmas)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/12/first-day-of-christmas-in-english.html

2. The Second Day of Christmas (December 26)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/12/second-day-of-christmas-in-shakespeares.html

3. The Third Day of Christmas (December 27)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/12/3rd-day-of-christmas-in-shakespeares.html

4. The Fourth Day of Christmas (December 28)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-fourth-day-of-christmas-in-churches.html

5.a. The Fifth Day of Christmas (December 29) Erasure of Thomas Becket
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-5th-day-of-christmas-rewriting.html

5.b. [The First Sunday After Christmas - a moveable feast, which (unlike the others) always falls on a Sunday]
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/12/first-sunday-after-christmas-jesus-of.html

5.c. Paul and Agrippa (5th Day of Christmas, without Thomas Becket, December 29, morning and evening prayer)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/12/paul-and-agrippa-not-becket-fifth-day.html

6. The Sixth Day of Christmas (December 30)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/12/sixth-day-of-christmas-pauls-shipwreck.html

7. The Seventh Day of Christmas (December 31)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-7th-day-of-christmas-december-31-in.html

8. The Eighth Day of Christmas (January 1)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-8th-day-of-christmas-in.html

9. The Ninth Day of Christmas (January 2)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-9th-day-of-christmas-in.html

10. The Tenth Day of Christmas (January 3)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2025/01/10th-day-of-christmas-in-churches-of.html

11. The Eleventh Day of Christmas (January 4th)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-11th-day-of-christmas-in-churches.html

12. The Twelfth Day of Christmas (Twelfth Night, January 5th)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-12th-day-of-christmas-in-churches.html

13. Epiphany and Balthazar in Shakespeare (Series, Part 13)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2025/01/epiphany-and-balthazar-in-shakespeare.html

14. The Feast of the Epiphany, January 6th
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2025/01/feast-of-epiphany-in-shakespeares-time.html

14. Many ways to approach Shakespeare's Twelfth Night as Christmas/Epiphany play



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