The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.1292 Thursday, 4 August 2005
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Date: Wednesday, 3 Aug 2005 10:38:11 -0400
Subj: Re: SHK 16.1287 Shakespeare and Aging
[2] From: Colin Cox <
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Date: Wednesday, 03 Aug 2005 17:57:49 -0700
Subj: Re: SHK 16.1287 Shakespeare and Aging
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From: Philip Eagle <
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Date: Wednesday, 3 Aug 2005 10:38:11 -0400
Subject: 16.1287 Shakespeare and Aging
Comment: Re: SHK 16.1287 Shakespeare and Aging
Loss of teeth is certainly not an indicator of advanced age in a
pre-modern society with inferior standards of dentistry and oral hygiene.
Philip Eagle
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From: Colin Cox <
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Date: Wednesday, 03 Aug 2005 17:57:49 -0700
Subject: 16.1287 Shakespeare and Aging
Comment: Re: SHK 16.1287 Shakespeare and Aging
>"It is difficult to play the Nurse - as I once did, at a boy's school -
>as anything other than old when most of one's teeth are blacked out, as
>the text requires."
If you recall in 'Shogun', Blackthorne's wife was 29 and most of her
teeth were gone. These are English characters!
Colin Cox
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