In Macbeth, Shakespeare refers to the owl as the "fatal bellman" because it was the bellman's job to ring the parish bell when a person in the town was near death. In Renaissance England the hoot of an owl flying over one's house was an evil omen, and meant impending death for someone inside. The Earl of Southampton: Shakespeare's PatronĪlchemy and Astrology in Shakespeare's DayĪre Shakespeare's Sonnets Autobiographical?Īre all the Sonnets addressed to two Persons? King James I of England: Shakespeare's Patron Stratford School Days: What Did Shakespeare Read? Lest the wise world should look into your moan If thinking on me then should make you woe.īut let your love even with my life decay, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot
Then you shall hear the surly sullen bellįrom this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell: Shakespeare Sonnet 71 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead
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