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It's even worse than that... According to Wikipedia: "Spain had adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1582, but England was still using the Julian calendar. Shakes
by officemonkey 11y ago
It's even worse than that... According to Wikipedia:
"Spain had adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1582, but England was still using the Julian calendar. Shakespeare's death on 23 April 1616 (Julian) was equivalent to 3 May 1616 (Gregorian). This was 10 days after Cervantes was buried and 11 days after he died."
- pklausler 11y agoIt's still an astonishing near-coincidence and I'm glad that you mentioned it.
- mcguire 11y agoTo paraphrase Borges, they should have died on the same day.
- riffraff 11y agoforgive my ignorance, but what is the Borges' sentence being rephrased?
- huxley 11y agoOne of Shakespeare's lost works, a collaboration with John Fletcher, was the History of Cardenio which is believed to have been based on a section of Don Quixote. Don Quixote was quite popular in English so it's kind of exciting to think of Shakespeare reading Don Quixote.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoYou gotta admit, that's better than the other way 'round.