The Shakespeare Code

Yes, Brothers and Sisters, FIVE new countries have taken the Cat’s Shilling since last we spoke….

GIBRALTAR

LIBYAN ARAB JAMHIRYA

ZIMBABWE

VIRGIN ISLANDS (U.S.A.)

BAHAMAS

This brings the number of participating countries to…….

ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOUR!!!

Also, Your Cat would like it to be known that she has added VITAL NEW INFORMATION to her…..

‘JULIUS CAESAR DECODED’ POST.

1. The Ditchley Portrait of Queen Elizabeth……

In the Post Your Cat argues that the character of Julius Caesar is a satirical portrait of Queen Elizabeth.

When Cassius says of Caesar…..

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world

Like a Colossus, and we petty men

Walk under his huge legs and peep about

To find ourselves dishonourable graves…

…..Your Cat believes that those in the know would think of the Ditchley Portrait…..

(Shakespeare also refers to this painting in Love’s Labours’s Lost. See full ‘Julius Caesar Decoded’ Post.)

2. In the ‘Julius Caesar Decoded’ Post, Your Cat also shows how Shakespeare links the family names of Penelope Rich with Charles Blount, Eighth Baron Mountjoy, in Sonnet 37.

While researching for my upcoming Post……

‘Trixie the Cat’s Guide to the Sonnets of William Shakespeare’

…..Your Cat discovered that Shakespeare has done EXACTLY THE SAME THING with Penelope Rich and Roger Manners, the Fifth Earl of Rutland, in Sonnet 85…..

To read the full, revised, ‘Julius Caesar Decoded’ Post – and this Pawnote – please click: HERE.

‘Bye, now…..