Weekend Crossword: Did Shakespeare truly write all his plays?
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Today’s readings: Jeremiah 23:1-6; Psalms 23:1-6; Ephesians 2:13-18; Mark 6:30-34
In 1599, one of the best-known love poems in English, written by the young Christopher Marlowe, was published posthumously. In The Passionate Shepherd to his Love, a wanting herder tries to win the love of his life with worldly assurances of joyousness and exhilaration. In reply to this poem, Walter Raleigh penned The Nymph’s reply to the Shepherd, wherein she rejects and ridicules the shepherd’s puerility in his understanding of love.
Years before, the 16th-century mystic John of the Cross also wrote about “a lone young shepherd living in pain, withdrawn from pleasure and contentment, his thoughts fixed on a shepherd-girl, his heart an open wound with love”. With psychological and spiritual finesse, he tells us that the shepherd “weeps, but not from the wound of love, even though the heart is pierced; he weeps in knowing he’s been forgotten”. Notwithstanding his pain, this lone young