John Dee, William Shakespeare, and a Tempest

85 Pages·2016·10.62 MB·English

John Dee, William
Shakespeare, and a Tempest
Notes for presentation 9-18-2016
Dr. Teresa Burns
[email protected]
University of Wisconsin—Platteville
“Who are these guys?”

What’s the story behind
these images? Which is likely
true?
This pictures showed up at a recent auction… is
it Kelley?
http://www.nickfarrell.it/painting-of-edward-kelly-turns-up-at-
auction/
Now, for another historical
problem….
Chandos portrait Cobbe portrait
Ugly portrait (most used, Shakespeare funerary
but least likely to look like monument
Shakespeare)
Grafton 1588 portrait
of someone, thought
by many to be
Shakespeare
Others think it looks
more like this portrait,
thought to be
Christopher Marlowe:

Where we’re going…
• Dan’s idea of consumed perspective as a way that different points of view
and/or different embedded symmetric shapes and axes of spin can inhabit
each other. As he says, “It’s something like holding inside you all at once, the
memory of what one whole group of your friends must be seeing and
feeling” (38).
• Assumptions about references to Dee or magic or alchemy in Shakespeare’s
plays (flash forward: the Tempestand Midsummer Night’s Dream)
• Quick review of John Dee’s standing as mathematician
• Quick review of Edward Kelley’s standing as an alchemist
• Math, magic, and Edward Kelley’s arrival at Mortlake
• Dee and Kelley’s European adventures, heavily edited to focus upon..
• Francis Garland as a “spy name” for Shakespeare
• 1588, the Spanish Armada, and an unusual storm
• Dee’s almost certain involvement in the Globe theater project
• With what time we have left after this, I can offer other evidence (in terms of
Dee’s diary, the English Compound of Alchemy,English Faust Book