The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 14.1700 Friday, 29 August 2003
[1] From: Hugh Grady <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 28 Aug 2003 10:00:26 -0400
Subj: RE: SHK 14.1695 Re: Tillyard (Again)
[2] From: D Bloom <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 28 Aug 2003 09:19:05 -0500
Subj: Re: SHK 14.1695 Re: Tillyard (Again)
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From: Hugh Grady <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 28 Aug 2003 10:00:26 -0400
Subject: 14.1695 Re: Tillyard (Again)
Comment: RE: SHK 14.1695 Re: Tillyard (Again)
Clifford Stetner is right of course that Shakespeare was not a
nineteenth-century revolutionary socialist. I plead poetic license.
Cheers,
Hugh Grady
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From: D Bloom <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 28 Aug 2003 09:19:05 -0500
Subject: 14.1695 Re: Tillyard (Again)
Comment: Re: SHK 14.1695 Re: Tillyard (Again)
Clifford Stetner writes
>Marx was a Shakespearean ahead of his time, but Shakespeare, although he
>held the bourgeoisie in contempt, spent too much time sucking up to the
>aristos to be called a Marxist.
I don't wish to be a knee-jerk bardolator, but it strikes me that this
has much to do with which side of the French Revolution you happened to
live on.
I imagine that, had he lived in the time of Wordsworth and Coleridge, he
would likely have been a kind of ideal combination of both. But he would
not, I think, have been a playwright, and would have spent no time
"sucking up to the aristos."
(This might make an interesting parlor game: trying to decide what
writers from other eras would have to be pasted together to make the
Shakespeare of that time. On the other hand, it might be self-indulgent
and stupid. Maybe I should withdraw it. No, too late.)
Cheers,
don
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