The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 18.0361  Thursday, 7 June 2007

From: 		Terence Hawkes <
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Date: 		Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:24:55 +0100
Subject: 	Alms for Oblivion

Charles Weinstein claims that I must know the lines from Coriolanus as 
he does. Nevertheless, the speech he quotes repeats a strange and 
crucial error which he ignores.  It replaces a wholly acceptable First 
Folio reading with an anodyne emendation from the Third Folio.  It 
proposes 'Flutter'd'  as a replacement for 'Flatter'd'. This is a moment 
of containment and enlistment which helps to recruit the play to a 
conservative agenda.  I wince alone.

T. Hawkes

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