Stratford, Trinity Church– Part Three

What you are looking at here is the misericordia…. that is the little shelves on which the choir could sit and appear to be standing! Yes there are real seats below them, but what is more interesting is the animal and plant carvings the woodworkers did to these ‘petite seats’ The rather unwelcoming door knocker on the church door. One of the interesting trivia points is about Shakespeare’s last name. Some have suggested that Psalm 46 has something to do with it, but his name already existed before the KJV of that Psalm, and Shakespeare had nothing to do with the translation of the KJV. It is however interesting that when Shakespeare was 46, the KJV was translated, and the 46th word from the beginning of that Psalm is shake, and the 46th word from the end of that Psalm is spear. Were the translators Shakespeare fans??? By 1609 his reputation was well established having written all his best plays– the late ones like the Tempest and the Winter’s Tale were collaborations, and by 1613 Shakespeare had already moved back to Stratford and died way too soon, numerous years before Anne died. Here is the text of the 1609 KJV Psalm 46, which Shakespeare did not contribute to, just for comparis...