Introduction *Part I: The Building of the Globe and the Elizabethan Calendar Controversy* Building Shakespeare's Globe *Julius Caesarand the Elizabethan Calendar Controversy * Calendrical Markers inJulius Caesar* Temporal Markers to mid-June 1599 inJulius Caesar* Shakespeare's Corpus Christi Archetype *Part II: Endemic Time Confusion in Julius Caesar* The Web of Caesar's Time * Shakeseare's Vernal Equinox Gambit: "Here lies the East." * Why the "Sunne of Rome" Set at Three O'clock *Part III: Shakespeare'sJulius Caesarand the Moveable Feast Discordances of 1599 * The Disrupted Easter Cycle of 1599 * Shrovetide, Saint Valentine's Eve, and the Roman Lupercal * Ash Wednesday, the Night of the Lupercal, and the Eve of the Ides of March * Good Friday, the Ides of March, and the Day Christ Died * Shakespeare's Third Day, the Books of Samuel, and the Mass of the Catechumens * Holy Easter, and Shakespeare's April Fools * Part IV: Shakespeare Among the Assassins * The Writer Who Changed the World * Part V: Evidence of Calendrical Markers in Other Plays of Shakespeare * Prolegomenon for a Mode of Criticism * Illyria's Faulty Calendar * Real Time inHamlet* Longer Notes and Apendices * Bibliography Introduction *Part I: The Building of the Globe and the Elizabethan Calendar Controversy* Building Shakespeare's Globe *Julius Caesarand the Elizabethan Calendar Controversy * Calendrical Markers inJulius Caesar* Temporal Markers to mid-June 1599 inJulius Caesar* Shakespeare's Corpus Christi Archetype *Part II: Endemic Time Confusion in Julius Caesar* The Web of Caesar's Time * Shakeseare's Vernal Equinox Gambit: "Here lies the East." * Why the "Sunne of Rome" Set at Three O'clock *Part III: Shakespeare'sJulius Caesarand the Moveable Feast Discordances of 1599 * The Disrupted Easter Cycle of 1599 * Shrovetide, Saint Valentine's Eve, and the Roman Lupercal * Ash Wednesday, the Night of the Lupercal, and the Eve of the Ides of March * Good Friday, the Ides of March, and the Day Christ Died * Shakespeare's Third Day, the Books of Samuel, and the Mass of the Catechumens * Holy Easter, and Shakespeare's April Fools * Part IV: Shakespeare Among the Assassins * The Writer Who Changed the World * Part V: Evidence of Calendrical Markers in Other Plays of Shakespeare * Prolegomenon for a Mode of Criticism * Illyria's Faulty Calendar * Real Time inHamlet* Longer Notes and Apendices * Bibliography.
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