Michael Delahoyde talks to Bob Meyers about Twelfth Night epiphanies

[@brendanward2991]

Just ordered Michael's Oxfordian Edition of Twelfth Night.

[@richardwaugaman1505]

Love Michael's Christmas tree! Great beginning to this new series. Thanks, Bob!

[@kinglear5952]

Michael Delahoyde is brilliant. I'm looking forward to learning more from him.

[@martincarden]

Brilliant !- Ty Michael and Bob you are both not only gentlemen but also eloquent scholars of great worth. As for Shakespeare the racist, alluded to at the end, of course Othello too is full of apparent, to our 20th/21st century ears, racism, but if I see nothing else in 'Shake-speare' (whoever he may have been), there is an author who always sees the losers' (read victims') side of things and portrays it in the plays with pathos and tear-jerking evocation of 'what it might feel like' to be on the losing side of attitudes and prejudices. Good luck to you Michael in all future researches and thanks Bob for choosing such an interesting first candidate for you conversations with Oxfordians series. Looking forward to future post with great enthusiasm.

[@tomgoff6867]

I think the meeting between QE1, Oxford, and the Archbishop of Canterbury is mentioned in the senior Ogburns' book, and probably in works by Percy Allen and other early Oxfordians.

[@bsmith5404]

I’m no scholar of Shakespeare and just interested to follow along with your points. Couldn’t help but notice your point on M O A I, and talking of Masonic reversals, It’s All One Malvolio. It’s all the same to me. Happy to help 😁 , I’m rubbish at cryptic crosswords too!

[@MrAbzu]

And who provided the revisions of which you speak? John Florio? With John Florio providing editing for the First Folio in 1622-1623, his "my great work" as he called it, Shakespeare would have only been aware of earlier versions or quartos. As I told my favorite Stratfordian, "good luck proving that Shakespeare wrote the false folios". The Florio, Jonson, Bacon, DeVere and Dee network leave clues for the Rosicrucian brotherhood. Who was alive when it happened and what was their role? What does the evidence support, mostly a house of cards? Where did the plays come from which John Florio likely revised into the First Folio? My guess would be Ben Jonson and friends. Good show.

[@michaeldelahoyde4802]

Yes -- PT drains me too. I understand this. Really.

[@tomgoff6867]

Reading in the Dark I’m reading Michael Delahoyde’s Twelfth Night: “Shakespeare’s” of course; Professor Delahoyde Edits it. As if in the odd half-light That granulates just after lights-out, void Dark yet alive with optical star-sprinkles Flocked, thus Jennifer Newton’s cover, dark grey, Lamp-tilted, scintillates like those laugh-wrinkles That salt eye corners beside smooth lids. Heyday Of sequin specks. On retinas, the ink Squid Oxford exudes, our Delahoyde dispels As vision adjusts, clear to the full-dark brink. Correlative to sight, ignite small bells In readers’ ears: arcana-M, O, A, I?- Truths long lost-sifted from strata of night sky.

[@stevenhershkowitz2265]

and we'll strive to please you EVERY DAY every day = day every = de Vere like the signature at the end of a work For the rain it raineth every day = 40 Reigns - De Vere

[@rooruffneck]

I didn't know that he was so deeply into the PT theory. I respect the speculations but it always drains me for some reason.

[@michaeldelahoyde4802]

Augh. I'm really not so into PT. I agree: it's draining. I wish 12N didn't make so much sense with it.

[@EccentricaGallumbits]

I just realised that Southampton's birthday, October 6, 1573, is exactly 9 months after 12th night 1572. Maybe he was conceived on 12th night?

[@andrewyarosh1809]

I hope your colleague that said it was “just a woman dressing as a man” was not in the English Department. Surely by now, even STEM professors know there were no women on the Elizabethan stage…