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Article #5152Re: Hiya, sci.lang folks! was:Re: Proof that 'Shakespeare' was Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford
From: Peter T. Daniels
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:30
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:30
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On Mar 3, 4:03 pm, Emungo <pyti...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > On 3 Mar, 19:53, Panu <craoibhi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On Mar 3, 2:50 pm, Melanie Sands <Melanie_Sa...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > Reading Shakespeare aloud is the nicest thing you can do for your > > > lungs and voice, by the way, especially if you have asthma like I do. > > > This is a neat illustration of cultism and entirely comparable with > > the Hindutva suggestion that learning or reading Sanskrit is good for > > your health. I refuse to take this cult superstition seriously. > > > > Maybe you should try it, Panu - that way you could actually get to > > > READ some of Shakespeare's plays...woah, wouldn't that be something, > > > you might end up actually knowing what you're talking about. > > > I have read his sonnets both in the original and (a couple of them) in > > Irish translations. I have read Hamlet in Stanislaw Baranczak's Polish > > translation, and Macbeth in Irish. I have also read Jan Kott's > > "Szekspir wspólczesny", and we read extensive fragments of "Julius > > Caesar" at school. I staunchly refuse to lose any more of my precious > > time to Shakespeare. Learning Georgian and Albanian is much more > > interesting. > > > > Melanie > > You seem unaware that bardolatry (in Britain, at any rate) has always > been shadowed by a healthy strain of misobardia - just as Rome knew > more than one Virgiliomastix. So you're not the amazing iconoclast you > seem to think you are. > > Furthermore I just don't see how you can pronounce 'Shakespeare is > rubbish' in a group whose name begins with 'sci', as if it were an > assertion capable of proof or disproof. Never mind all that -- did you notice that in the above, he admits that he has never read anything by Shakespeare beyond some excerpts from Julius Caesar? (He doesn't say whether he's ever seen any on stage or screen, which is the way to properly appreciate it.)
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