The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.1459 Tuesday, 12 June 2001
[1] From: Thomas Larque <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 11 Jun 2001 14:06:55 +0100
Subj: Re: SHK 12.1439 Re: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Names
[2] From: Tom Simone <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 11 Jun 2001 10:19:56 -0400
Subj: Re: SHK 12.1439 Re: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Names
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From: Thomas Larque <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 11 Jun 2001 14:06:55 +0100
Subject: 12.1439 Re: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Names
Comment: Re: SHK 12.1439 Re: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Names
> I might mention in passing that I have started work on a treatise that
> will prove that the works of 'Shakespeare' were in fact written by an
> Arab nobleman called Sheikh Speer, who started his career holding
> camels
> outside the desert playtents. I'll inform you when it's ready for
> publication. You're welcome.
I presume that Pervez Rizvi is joking in his comments above. This
morning, however, I was reading Peter Brook's "Evoking Shakespeare"
which included a reference to an audience member in Russia who told
Brook "We all know here that Shakespeare came from Uzbekistan because
the name 'Sheik' is an Arab term and a 'peer' is a wise man, so
'Shakespeare' was a code name to tell everyone that he was a
Crypto-Muslim living in a Protestant country where Catholics were being
prosecuted" (p.9). It seems almost impossible to parody views of this
kind, as almost every suggestion - however bizarre and implausible - has
been seriously made by somebody at some time.
Thomas Larque.
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From: Tom Simone <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 11 Jun 2001 10:19:56 -0400
Subject: 12.1439 Re: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Names
Comment: Re: SHK 12.1439 Re: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Names
Many thanks to all for the informed and extensive background on the
question of the names of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
I am in your debt(s) for your generosity and tolerance.
Best,
Tom Simone
University of Vermont
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