Shakespeare

Shakespeare, William

Quelle: Internationales Freimaurer-Lexikon von Eugen Lennhoff und Oskar Posner (1932)

Es ist wohl müßig, wie es manchmal geschieht, über die Frage zu streiten, ob Shakespeare Freimaurer war. Für die Beurteilung des freimaurerischen Sprachschatzes finden sich aber bei Shakespeare zahlreiche Anklänge.

So in Coriolan 4, 6: "You have made good work, you and your apronmen." In "Verlorene Liebesmühe" 1, 2: "I will visit thee at the Lodge" (wobei Lodge die Wohnung bedeutet, lodgings). "Worshipful old master" findet sich in "Der Widerspenstigen Zahmung" 5, 1. "What is he, that builds stronger than the mason?" in Hamlet 5, 1.

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J. W. Horsley hat 1905 in der Quatuor Coronati Lodge die vorgeschriebenen Trinksprüche auf Zitate von Shakespeare gestellt, wodurch bei manchen unkritischen Historikern irrige Vorstellungen erweckt wurden (s. auch Stratford on Avon).

Weitere Indizien

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• "Put on two leather jerkins and aprons." - 2 Henry IV., 2: 190.
• "They will put on two of your jerkins and aprons." - 2 Henry IV., II, 4:18.
• "Here, Robin, an I die, I give thee my apron." - 2 Henry VI., II, 3:75.
• "The nobility think scorn to go in leather aprons." -2 Henry VI., II, 2:14.
• "Hold up, you sluts, your aprons mountant." - Timothy of Athens, IV, 3:135.
• "A carpenter--where is thy leather apron and thy rule?" - Julius Caesar I, 1:7.
• "Mechanic slaves with greasy aprons, rules and hammers." - Antony and Cleopatra, V, 2:210.
• "He will line your apron with gold." - Pericles, IV, 6:64.
• "You have made good work, you and your apron." - Coriolanus, IV, 6:96.
• "Being then appointed Master of this design." - Tempest, I, 2:163.
• "The singing Masons, building roofs of gold." - Henry V., I, 2:98.
• "What is he that builds stronger than either Mason?" - Henry V., I, 47.
• "Who builds stronger than the Mason?" - Henry V., I, 57.
• "Creaking my shoes on plain Masonry." - All's Well That Ends Well, II, 1:31.
• "You shall see him in the triple pillar of the world." - Antony and Cleopatra, I, 1:12.
• "And set it down with gold on lasting pillars." - Tempest, V, 1 :208.
• "And call them pillars that will stand to us." - 3 Henry VI., II, 3:87.
• "He is not our Craft's Master." - 2 Henry IV., III, 2 :297.
• "Wooing poor craftsmen." - Richard II., I, 4:28.
• "Hearkens after prophecies and dreams;
• And from the cross-row plucks the letter G." - Richard III, I, 1.
• "Nay, Cadwal, we must lay his head to the east; My father has a reason for't." - Cymbeline, IV, 2.