The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.1491 Thursday, 14 June 2001
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Date: Wednesday, 13 Jun 2001 12:16:19 +0100
Subj: Re: SHK 12.1478 Re: Geography
[2] From: Terence Hawkes <
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Date: Wednesday, 13 Jun 2001 09:59:26 -0400
Subj: SHK 12.1443 Re: Geography
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From: Sam Small <
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Date: Wednesday, 13 Jun 2001 12:16:19 +0100
Subject: 12.1478 Re: Geography
Comment: Re: SHK 12.1478 Re: Geography
John Jowett wrote:
A Scottish friend of mine will be very pleased to hear that some
Shakespearians think Shakespeare saw England as a mere peninsula,
presumably of Scotland.
The Scots think of the world - the whole universe, even - as a
peninsular of Scotland.
SAM SMALL
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From: Terence Hawkes <
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Date: Wednesday, 13 Jun 2001 09:59:26 -0400
Subject: Re: Geography
Comment: SHK 12.1443 Re: Geography
Let's get back to the point. England is not and never has been an
island. Gaunt's 'mistake' confirms Shakespeare as a servant of ideology
rather than a dealer in what some like to think of as the simple truth.
Heaven knows why that should surprise anybody. Yet, in their efforts to
protect him from a role he readily adopts, the Bard's sentimental
worshippers seem prepared to engage in astonishing intellectual
contortions to persuade us that 'isle' here mysteriously means
'peninsula'. Why? I sometimes think that Chicken-Licken is alive and
well and living in Canada.
Terence Hawkes
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