Santiago Matamoros and Shakespeare

[Elizabeth Boylston-Morris]

Gabrielle, Lisa, Robert et.al.
As a theater major in the University of Georgia I frequently acted in Romeo
and Juliet and Othello.  In preparation for our parts we actors had to read
and study the Italian novellas  upon which the plays were based and the plot
enhancements and other changes made by Shakespeare. While pursuing a graduate
degree, at Smith College, and a postgraduate degree, at Columbia University,
I joined the Shakespearean societies and spent many a delightful evening
discussing the wherefroms and wherefors of the names used by Shakespeare.
The name most talked about was Iago; inevitably the discussion spread to
Santiago and, often, to the madness of  those of our contemporaries who would
walk 500 miles in unimaginable discomfort pursuing they knew not what.
I formed the design, then, of making the pilgrimage myself someday.  When I
bicycled the Camino last year I met several cycling pilgrims from Scotland
and England, mostly Anglican priests, but a few Catholic ones, who also had
become interested in the Camino pursuing the Iago-Santiago thread. (I wonder
what Willie would have thought of such unintended denouement.)
The Peter R. Moore's, "Shakespeare's Iago and Santiago Matamoros"  article
appeared in 1996 in NOTES AND QUERIES  which is a literary series published
in England by the Oxford University Press.  There is also a Canadian NOTES
AND QUERIES, and sometimes articles from the English one are reproduced
there,  particularly in such subjects as Shakespeare; perhaps you can get the
full article from one or the other.
......Lisa, what do you mean by Santiago Matamoros sources?  Literary ones?
Please let me know.
Fondly,
Liz