St gregory nazianzus biography of william shakespeare
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Wherever personal reference is made in this work to William Shakspere of Stratford, the name is so spelled, William Shakspere; but whenever the reference is to the author of the plays, as such, we treat the name as a pseudonym, spelling it as it was printed on many of the title-pages of the early quartos, WILLIAM SHAKE-SPEARE. In all cases of quotation, however, we follow the originals.
LATIN.--The 'Comedy of Errors' was founded upon the Menaechmi of Plautus, a comic poet who wrote about 200 B.C. The first translation of the Latin work into English, so far as known, was made in 1595, and without any resemblance to it "in any peculiarity of language, of names, or of any other matter, however slight."--Verplanck."His frequent use of Latin derivatives in their radical sense shows a somewhat thoughtful and observant study of that language."--Richard Grant White's Memoirs of William Shakespeare, p. xvi.
"He showed his fundamental knowledge of that language, by using its words in their genuine, original meaning, which they have lost with their adoption into English."--Gervinus' Shakespeare Commentaries,1 p. 26.
"After the proofs I have given, it will hardly, I think, be denied that he was quite capable of studying the celebrated story [of 'Venus and Adonis'] in the orig
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It feels a little odd to kick things off with Gregory of Nazianzus. He doesn’t have the star power of Augustine, Calvin, Luther, or the other big-name denominational theologians. My theology nerd friends haven’t really read him, and truth be told, I only ended up reading his poetry by mistake. I confused him with Gregory of Nyssa when I was ordering books (strangely enough, the two Gregory of N’s were dear friends in life, so I wasn’t far off). I’m glad I made that mistake! Gregory is the poet theologian that I didn’t know I needed. Here’s why:
1.He’s succinct.
There are plenty of massive theology tomes out there that will take you months to properly understand (if not years). And most people don’t read them for a simple reason: who has the time for all that? Gregory’s poems are something you do have time for. In his explanatory poem On His Own Verses, he writes”
By working for others, I wished
to subdue my own unmeasuredness;
indeed, though I write, I don’t write much
when toiling on meter. (35-37)“Measuredness” was something of a theme in Gregory’s life. As the archbishop of Constantinople, Gregory was used to talking a lot. He railed against heresi