Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear

Paul Golder
Paul Golder Member Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum






Have you seen that the The
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
are now on PrePub?

Finally after all these years!

Now would be an excellent time to pre-order, while it's half
price.

 

For nought so vile
that on the earth doth live,

But to the earth some
special good doth give;

Nor aught so good, but,
strain'd from that fair use,

Revolts from true birth,
stumbling on abuse:

Virtue itself turns vice,
being misapplied,

And vice sometime 's by
action dignified.

 

"As any translator will attest, a literal translation is no translation at all."

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  • Paul Golder
    Paul Golder Member Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭

    It's only been a few hours, and we're almost half way to production [Y]

    "As any translator will attest, a literal translation is no translation at all."

  • Paul Golder
    Paul Golder Member Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭

    At 80% to 90% right now. Just a few more pre-orders, and it's off to production.

    "As any translator will attest, a literal translation is no translation at all."

  • Rosie Perera
    Rosie Perera Member Posts: 26,194 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I jumped on it right away when I saw it. This is the fastest I've ever seen a pre-pub approach 100%!

  • DominicM
    DominicM Member Posts: 2,995 ✭✭✭

    I hope they find some way of keeping the stage direction but incorporate being able to toggle it on/off

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  • Alan Macgregor
    Alan Macgregor Member Posts: 2,438 ✭✭✭

    DominicM said:

    I hope they find some way of keeping the stage direction

    Oh yes, especially Exeunt pursued by bear from Winter's Tale. [:)]

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  • Jerry Bush
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    I must be living in a different world than the rest of you. [:)]

    I cannot imagine spending 30 seconds reading Shakespeare. Though I admit if you like it, that is a really good deal.

    Jerry

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  • Paul Golder
    Paul Golder Member Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭

    I must be living in a different world than the rest of you. Smile

    I cannot imagine spending 30 seconds reading Shakespeare. Though I admit if you like it, that is a really good deal.

    Jerry






    "I'm a great admirer of the
    literary classics by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and the Victorian
    novelists, especially Austen and Trollope. These are writers who help
    you have a Christian mindset. I think one of the great tragedies is
    that the loss of Christian faith and the meaning it gives to people's
    lives makes it impossible for them to really appreciate literature."

    —Phillip E. Johnson [:)]

     

    "As any translator will attest, a literal translation is no translation at all."

  • Juanita
    Juanita Member Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭


    I must be living in a different world than the rest of you. Smile

    I cannot imagine spending 30 seconds reading Shakespeare. Though I admit if you like it, that is a really good deal.

    Jerry

     

    "I'm a great admirer of the literary classics by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and the Victorian novelists, especially Austen and Trollope. These are writers who help you have a Christian mindset. I think one of the great tragedies is that the loss of Christian faith and the meaning it gives to people's lives makes it impossible for them to really appreciate literature."

    —Phillip E. Johnson Smile

     


    I was forced to read Shakespeare in high school and it definitely did not help me to have a Christian mindset, au contraire; however some of the English poets did along with Screwtape letters which I was also required to read.
  • Paul Golder
    Paul Golder Member Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭

    I was forced to read Shakespeare in high school and it definitely did not help me to have a Christian mindset, au contraire; however some of the English poets did along with Screwtape letters which I was also required to read.

    My English Literature teacher in high school had us act out Macbeth while standing on top of our desks. Every since then Shakespeare's words have come alive within my heart.

    "As any translator will attest, a literal translation is no translation at all."

  • Ken Shawver
    Ken Shawver Member Posts: 519 ✭✭


    I must be living in a different world than the rest of you. Smile

    I cannot imagine spending 30 seconds reading Shakespeare. Though I admit if you like it, that is a really good deal.

    Jerry

     

    "I'm a great admirer of the literary classics by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and the Victorian novelists, especially Austen and Trollope. These are writers who help you have a Christian mindset. I think one of the great tragedies is that the loss of Christian faith and the meaning it gives to people's lives makes it impossible for them to really appreciate literature."

    —Phillip E. Johnson Smile

     

    I was forced to read Shakespeare in high school and it definitely did not help me to have a Christian mindset, au contraire; however some of the English poets did along with Screwtape letters which I was also required to read.

     


     

    I enjoy Shakespeare, read it in high school - but the public enducation system has a way of reducing literary works (i.e. mock trials for Macbeth and his wife, turning Hamlet into a twisted comedy, etc - yes my english instructor was on the bizarre side) - and have a hardcopy of this edition. When not i use it makes a great doorstop [:P]. I would like to see titles like the Screwtape Letter from C.S. Lewis as well. Although I can't see buying this one - although it would be a nice addition - it is a plus.

    In Christ,

    Ken

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  • TCBlack
    TCBlack Member Posts: 10,980 ✭✭✭

    Being one who asked for it years ago due to it's quotability, I placed my order - in hopes that it will not be completed before the money is set aside.  [:^)]

    Hmm Sarcasm is my love language. Obviously I love you. 

  • Paul Golder
    Paul Golder Member Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭

    I jumped on it right away when I saw it. This is the fastest I've ever seen a pre-pub approach 100%!

    I think you are right. I know that the ESV Study Bible was quick, but I don't think it was this fast.

    It looks like it's at 100%, and just needs someone at Logos to "push the button" for full production. [:D]

    "As any translator will attest, a literal translation is no translation at all."

  • Paul Golder
    Paul Golder Member Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭

    "As any translator will attest, a literal translation is no translation at all."

  • TCBlack
    TCBlack Member Posts: 10,980 ✭✭✭

    Hmm Sarcasm is my love language. Obviously I love you. 

  • Todd Phillips
    Todd Phillips Member Posts: 6,736 ✭✭✭

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  • Robert G. Mettler
    Robert G. Mettler Member Posts: 195 ✭✭


    Yea verily, that was fast.

    Forsooth!

     

    I don't understand why this is getting so much attention when there are other items that seem more appropriate for study that are languishing here. For example:


    The Decades of Heinrich Bullinger (4 Vols.)

    The Decades of Heinrich Bullinger include 50 godly and learned sermons, divided into five decades containing the chief and principal points of Christian Religion—over 1,800 pages of sermons and related material. more »

     

    Status: Gathering Interest  

     

     

       (Production can proceed at 100%)

     

     


    New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (13 Vols.)

    For more than a century, the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge has set the standard for biblical and theological reference works. Over a period of nearly four decades, nearly 100 editors and more than six hundred scholars under the editorship of Philip Schaff collaborated to write the most detailed and comprehensive biblical and theological encyclopedia in the English language. For the first time in this third edition, Schaff successfully brought together into a singular reference work the most important scholarship from biblical studies, historical and doctrinal theology, archaeology, geography, church history, patristics, and comparative religion. The resulting work ranks among the best-selling and most-cited Christian reference materials, and has been the first stop for pastors, teachers, parents, students, and scholars for more than a century. more »

     

    Status: Gathering Interest  

     

     

       (Production can proceed at 100%)

     

  • Todd Phillips
    Todd Phillips Member Posts: 6,736 ✭✭✭

    I don't understand why this is getting so much attention when there are other items that seem more appropriate for study that are languishing here.

    That seems like a personal judgment call to me.

    The Decades of Heinrich Bullinger (4 Vols.)

    Thanks for pointing it out...I just preordered it.

    New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (13 Vols.)

    Tell me why I should want this (beyond what the product page tells me).  I already have extensive dictionaries and encyclopedias.

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  • Paul Golder
    Paul Golder Member Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭

    I don't understand why this is getting so much attention

    In Shakespeare's works we find no fewer than 550 quotations from, and references to, Sacred Scripture. He quotes from fifty-four of the Books of the Bible. Not only one of his thirty-seven plays is without a quotation from God's word, or at least an allusion to it.

    The student of Shakespeare must have noticed how often the Bard of Avon goes to the shepherds and fishermen of the Bible for poetic inspiration. Read Richard II and you will find forty; Richard III and you will find forty-nine; go through Hamlet and you will find eighty quotations from Scripture.

    I did a search in my Logos library for Shakespeare and received theses results: 1772 results in 1525 articles in 276 resources

    "As any translator will attest, a literal translation is no translation at all."

  • Rene Atchley
    Rene Atchley Member Posts: 325 ✭✭

    Slowly but surely the "library" modules of Logos expand to cover areas that historically have not been part of the Logos product mix before...good, bad, or indifferent.   Wonder what other libraries will appear once the classic market is conquered?

  • Paul Golder
    Paul Golder Member Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭

    Slowly but surely the "library" modules of Logos expand to cover areas that historically have not been part of the Logos product mix before...good, bad, or indifferent.   Wonder what other libraries will appear once the classic market is conquered?

    They have had some unusual items in the past. One was an Atlas model railroad guide. They also, back when everyone was worried, carried a Y2K survival guide that Nelson had published.

    As well, they currently offer the American history collection.

    "As any translator will attest, a literal translation is no translation at all."

  • Juanita
    Juanita Member Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭


    Slowly but surely the "library" modules of Logos expand to cover areas that historically have not been part of the Logos product mix before...good, bad, or indifferent.   Wonder what other libraries will appear once the classic market is conquered?


    You did see the handwriting on the wall, Rene, awhile ago.
  • TCBlack
    TCBlack Member Posts: 10,980 ✭✭✭

    They have had some unusual items in the past. One was an Atlas model railroad guide.

    One of my favorite examples just for it's raw obscurity.   I actually called up the Atlas Co. a few years ago and asked them for a copy, just so I could have it.  It adds No value whatsoever to my Logos Library, but my son and I have enjoyed looking at some of the layouts (he is a train nut).

    However I have failed to gain even one exegetical gem from it.

    Hmm Sarcasm is my love language. Obviously I love you. 

  • Paul Golder
    Paul Golder Member Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭

    However I have failed to gain even one exegetical gem from it.

    If not exegetical, at least poetic. As in: "The Ties that Bind Us..." [;)]

    "As any translator will attest, a literal translation is no translation at all."

  • Roger Feenstra
    Roger Feenstra Member Posts: 459 ✭✭

    back when everyone was worried, carried a Y2K

    Um.  Not everyone.

    Elder/Pastor, Hope Now Bible Church, Fresno CA

  • Rosie Perera
    Rosie Perera Member Posts: 26,194 ✭✭✭✭✭


    They have had some unusual items in the past. One was an Atlas model railroad guide.

    Weird. Well, I guess it might help you gauge your progress in the faith and keep you on the right track. [;)]

  • Ward Walker
    Ward Walker Member Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭


    ...called up the Atlas Co. a few years ago and asked them for a copy,


    ...

    Just surfed their website--no hits--I guess it has been discontinued. [:(]  Well, back to reading "a concise history of christian thought..."

  • TCBlack
    TCBlack Member Posts: 10,980 ✭✭✭

    Ward, FWIW I had to call them and inquire.  I don't believe it was available on the website.  IIRC the gentleman I talked to indicated they may just destroy them at some point in the future - a future which has probably come to pass by now.  [:S]

    Hmm Sarcasm is my love language. Obviously I love you.