The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 8.0690. Friday, 20 June 1997.
[1] From: W. L. Godshalk <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 19 Jun 1997 21:23:44 -0400
Subj: Re: SHK 8.0680 Re: MM "Glass"
[2] From: Joe Shea <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 19 Jun 1997 23:10:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subj: Re: SHK 8.0684 Re: MM "Glass"
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From: W. L. Godshalk <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 19 Jun 1997 21:23:44 -0400
Subject: 8.0680 Re: MM "Glass"
Comment: Re: SHK 8.0680 Re: MM "Glass"
I haven't followed this entire thread, so I ask from ignorance: has
anyone cited G. K. Hunter's little essay (published some 30 years ago)
on "glassy essence"? I was writing an explanatory note on the passage
at the time, but after reading Hunter, I realized that I had nothing
substantial to add. The "glassy essence" is a reflection in a looking
glass, and apes were represented in the Renaissance as partial to making
mouths at themselves in mirrors.
Yours, Bill Godshalk
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From: Joe Shea <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 19 Jun 1997 23:10:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: 8.0684 Re: MM "Glass"
Comment: Re: SHK 8.0684 Re: MM "Glass"
Wouldn't "glass" be the Shakespearean "glass," i.e., a telescope --
looking through a telescope in the dark, which-until night visions
scopes-reveals little or nothing of the landscape? The King James
version would be consistent with that interpretation in terms of its
timing.
Best,
Joe Shea
Editor-in-Chief
The American Reporter