tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26428110.post7648277149390128291..comments2023-07-08T09:00:54.916-07:00Comments on A Common Reader: Shakespeare Uncovered: MacbethDwighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13688525659034403580noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26428110.post-76809921449352029172014-04-16T16:16:59.959-07:002014-04-16T16:16:59.959-07:00Yes, I'm looking forward to that episode since...Yes, I'm looking forward to that episode since I liked Tennant's version of Hamlet quite a bit.<br /><br />The Henry IV and V with Jeremy Irons was pretty good--I really enjoyed him as H IV in "The Hollow Crown" series recently.Dwighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13688525659034403580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26428110.post-41951834764996332312014-04-16T04:26:45.755-07:002014-04-16T04:26:45.755-07:00Thank you. Would be interested know what David Ten...Thank you. Would be interested know what David Tennant has to say about it all.Jonathan Chanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26428110.post-49683879405076634492014-04-15T17:31:54.529-07:002014-04-15T17:31:54.529-07:00Almost forgot this…see this post for more on the n...Almost forgot this…see <a href="http://bookcents.blogspot.com/2014/02/hamlet-and-robert-burton-melancholy-and.html" rel="nofollow">this post</a> for more on the non-fever aspect of madness while looking at melancholy in Hamlet (courtesy of Robert Burton).Dwighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13688525659034403580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26428110.post-54487502342641286892014-04-15T17:11:50.508-07:002014-04-15T17:11:50.508-07:00Just saw there is more detail on this in the curre...Just saw there is more detail on this in the current Shakespeare online course I'm taking. Professor Jonathan Bate mentions a work by Andrew Boorde published in the 1550s: "The Breviary of Health." In it he has the following quote:<br /><br />‘In English, it is named madness or woodness, like a wild beast. It doth differ from a frenzy, for a<br />frenzy is with a fever and so is not mania, this madness I do pretend to speak now of.’<br /><br />The book was frequently reprinted in Shakespeare's time so it wasn't just an obscure reference. <br />Dwighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13688525659034403580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26428110.post-77967960269014850662014-04-15T13:18:38.490-07:002014-04-15T13:18:38.490-07:00Didn't know that - about the heat-oppressed br...Didn't know that - about the heat-oppressed brain. Thanks for posting.Jonathan Chanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com