9:06 Oxford as Mercury makes sense. Both Mercutio in R&J and Proteus in TGV have the same root/meaning to their names--"changeable, unpredictable." For folks wondering, Benvolio and Valentine are Sidney. Romeo seems an amalgam of EO and PS.
Thanks for your work on this. Some feedback. May edit to add more. 1. The audio is recorded only to the left channel. Perhaps you had a stereo mic jack partially unplugged? 2. Sidney sonnet 37, he uses the word Rich seven (7) times not six. This is to be expected if you believe in certain number codes. It's the #22 position word from the end; with the last/first in position #3, counting from the end. 3. Do you have her codes used with/regarding James and the succession? 4. Sidney has a habit of using the same letter to start a line, 3 or 4 times in a row. It's a theme throughout the sonnets. Thoughts? 5. In this case he uses R for Rich three times in a row (with four in that shape) making a T which notably centers the true payload of the sonnet. In my opinion: "Renowne, / of a Royall Heart, / Eternall Crowne" 6. Your punctuation as transcribed does not match the printed version I'm looking at. The colons for semi-colons for example. It changes some implications. 7. Your modernized spelling is fine but also obfuscates some conscious choices Sidney made. (For example in another sonnet he chooses to start the like with capital-Yf for if.) Here he uses double LLs and some intentional silent Es that the transcript deletes. This is fine if your just reading the poem. Not if you think all the poets choices matter for various reasons. 8. In this sonnet #37 you have incorrectly got Sidney's capitalization "Aurora's Court" as 'Aurora's court.' These are two of the three only non-first letter capitals, so that's important. Aurora and Rich are proper nouns (names). We know this precisely because he capitalizes the last Rich on the last line ("Rich she is"). This means it's a conscious choice by the poet to also capitalize Court ("Aurora's Court") and your transcription is lossy in that regard. 9. In my printed version (online via India, unfortunately not original edition) the "in labour be:" is the only use of colon mark. Also a conscious choice. Given her fecundity? The other colons in your version ought to be semi-colons. 10. Regarding the "acrostic" libel (call the countess for a good time etc) the key to spotting those... beyond the incredibly obvious ones... is the seemingly arbitrary capitalizations mid line. In Sonnet 37 there are three words capitalized mid-line: Aurora, Court, and Rich. Taking only the capital letters in sequence we find: M M L F T A C R B A R R R W W H R Make of that what you will/may. It matters a lot if the Ws are struck as VV VV because then they function as U but also of course as V and you have to solve for the correct number of the correct letters. (Or numbers in Latin, or Tudor-era code.) Also remember the C is capitalized in some not all editions. "2050" mean anything to you, Sidney, or Penelope? Who was 20 and who was 50? Alexander gave a key at one point but I don't have it.
31:18 So Spenser is where stuff goes all wonky with me. I've seen Amyntas refer to at least 3 different people: Thomas Watson, Thomas Lodge, Ferdinando Stanley. Those are 3 pretty different people, so which is it?
41:11 May be where it all started, the necessary lifting of a gag name to art, and not artist. "Never before imprinted" is redolent with the casual phoenix
Hello Matt, What May be the reason, that in your Fine Video on the Short Sonnet Period (1592-98)and Penelope you do not seem to deal with.the complex question of Their artistic authorships and authors .-(e.g. Drayton ,Griffin, Barnfield , Lodge and many more) It is both a shame and sad that you apparently can't make anything of the Marlowe/Shakespeare theory." Drayton ua-cam.com/video/57LKIFQTkFo/v-deo.htmlsi=jH-cmmSwuDyv0ZbN Griffin ua-cam.com/video/cJ2aAgiTj0M/v-deo.htmlsi=t0NPwIPcMmrZj9a Barnfield ua-cam.com/video/s5Xq2OWplWo/v-deo.htmlsi=2T4n9SopGv81zDZo Thomas Lodge ua-cam.com/video/PSPLjkn3cBk/v-deo.htmlsi=uB0844d9hsdQYeEx B Conrad
9:06 Oxford as Mercury makes sense. Both Mercutio in R&J and Proteus in TGV have the same root/meaning to their names--"changeable, unpredictable." For folks wondering, Benvolio and Valentine are Sidney. Romeo seems an amalgam of EO and PS.
Thanks for your work on this. Some feedback. May edit to add more.
1. The audio is recorded only to the left channel. Perhaps you had a stereo mic jack partially unplugged?
2. Sidney sonnet 37, he uses the word Rich seven (7) times not six. This is to be expected if you believe in certain number codes. It's the #22 position word from the end; with the last/first in position #3, counting from the end.
3. Do you have her codes used with/regarding James and the succession?
4. Sidney has a habit of using the same letter to start a line, 3 or 4 times in a row. It's a theme throughout the sonnets. Thoughts?
5. In this case he uses R for Rich three times in a row (with four in that shape) making a T which notably centers the true payload of the sonnet. In my opinion:
"Renowne, / of a Royall Heart, / Eternall Crowne"
6. Your punctuation as transcribed does not match the printed version I'm looking at. The colons for semi-colons for example. It changes some implications.
7. Your modernized spelling is fine but also obfuscates some conscious choices Sidney made. (For example in another sonnet he chooses to start the like with capital-Yf for if.) Here he uses double LLs and some intentional silent Es that the transcript deletes. This is fine if your just reading the poem. Not if you think all the poets choices matter for various reasons.
8. In this sonnet #37 you have incorrectly got Sidney's capitalization "Aurora's Court" as 'Aurora's court.' These are two of the three only non-first letter capitals, so that's important. Aurora and Rich are proper nouns (names). We know this precisely because he capitalizes the last Rich on the last line ("Rich she is"). This means it's a conscious choice by the poet to also capitalize Court ("Aurora's Court") and your transcription is lossy in that regard.
9. In my printed version (online via India, unfortunately not original edition) the "in labour be:" is the only use of colon mark. Also a conscious choice. Given her fecundity? The other colons in your version ought to be semi-colons.
10. Regarding the "acrostic" libel (call the countess for a good time etc) the key to spotting those... beyond the incredibly obvious ones... is the seemingly arbitrary capitalizations mid line. In Sonnet 37 there are three words capitalized mid-line: Aurora, Court, and Rich. Taking only the capital letters in sequence we find:
M M L F T A C R B A R R R W W H R
Make of that what you will/may. It matters a lot if the Ws are struck as VV VV because then they function as U but also of course as V and you have to solve for the correct number of the correct letters. (Or numbers in Latin, or Tudor-era code.) Also remember the C is capitalized in some not all editions. "2050" mean anything to you, Sidney, or Penelope? Who was 20 and who was 50? Alexander gave a key at one point but I don't have it.
Boy howdy. Between this, Lisa Quattorcki and David Richardson, everything is coming up Sidney. This is a good good sign.
31:18 So Spenser is where stuff goes all wonky with me. I've seen Amyntas refer to at least 3 different people: Thomas Watson, Thomas Lodge, Ferdinando Stanley. Those are 3 pretty different people, so which is it?
41:11 May be where it all started, the necessary lifting of a gag name to art, and not artist. "Never before imprinted" is redolent with the casual phoenix
Hello Matt,
What May be the reason, that in your Fine Video on the Short Sonnet
Period (1592-98)and Penelope you do not seem to deal with.the complex question of
Their artistic authorships and authors .-(e.g. Drayton ,Griffin, Barnfield , Lodge and many more)
It is both a shame and sad that you apparently can't make anything of the Marlowe/Shakespeare theory."
Drayton
ua-cam.com/video/57LKIFQTkFo/v-deo.htmlsi=jH-cmmSwuDyv0ZbN
Griffin
ua-cam.com/video/cJ2aAgiTj0M/v-deo.htmlsi=t0NPwIPcMmrZj9a
Barnfield
ua-cam.com/video/s5Xq2OWplWo/v-deo.htmlsi=2T4n9SopGv81zDZo
Thomas Lodge
ua-cam.com/video/PSPLjkn3cBk/v-deo.htmlsi=uB0844d9hsdQYeEx
B Conrad