The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.0288  Monday, 2 February 2004

From:           Terence Hawkes <
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Date:           Friday, 30 Jan 2004 12:56:09 -0500
Subject: "Would Shakespeare Get Into Swarthmore?"
Comment:        SHK 15.0266 "Would Shakespeare Get Into Swarthmore?"

Never mind Swarthmore. A famous verse of the 1920s has Shakespeare
sitting an examination for a British Civil Serice post:

The English paper for the year
Had several questions on 'King Lear'
Which Shakespeare answered very badly
Because he hadn't read his Bradley.

T. Hawkes

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