The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.0820 Monday, 5 April 2004
[1] From: Peter Bridgman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 2 Apr 2004 22:28:32 +0100
Subj: Re: SHK 15.0807 Lincoln / Macbeth
[2] From: Susan St. John <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 03 Apr 2004 09:56:09 -0700
Subj: Re: SHK 15.0807 Lincoln / Macbeth
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From: Peter Bridgman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 2 Apr 2004 22:28:32 +0100
Subject: 15.0807 Lincoln / Macbeth
Comment: Re: SHK 15.0807 Lincoln / Macbeth
>Prairie families didn't have a lot of room for books, even if they were
>as casually easy to obtain as they are now, which they weren't. But they
>had the King James Bible, and enough of them had a Complete Works of
>Shakespeare.
I would have thought that prairie families, and anyone spiritually
descended from the Pilgrim Fathers, would have read the Geneva Bible.
Did loyalty to the English crown and bishops extend as far as the Wild West?
Peter Bridgman
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From: Susan St. John <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 03 Apr 2004 09:56:09 -0700
Subject: 15.0807 Lincoln / Macbeth
Comment: Re: SHK 15.0807 Lincoln / Macbeth
>Oddly enough, the King James made it easier for the kids back then to
>read Shakespeare.
"kids back then"????
Abigail...I grew up in the 60's (that would be the NINETEEN-60's)
attending a church that used the KJB and I attribute my early love of
Shakespeare to that exact point you make for the "kids back then"!
[I didn't think I was so old as to be a "kid back then"]
[smiling]
Susan.
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