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From: Brian M. Scott
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:06
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:06
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Panu wrote:
> On Mar 3, 11:03 pm, Emungo <pyti...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
[...]
>> Maybe the reality is that I don't like drama very much.
I know that I don't.
>> But what I, like many anglophones, find fantastic about
>> Shakespeare is his use of language. The regularity with
>> which he uses what seem to me precisely the right words
>> in precisely the right way in precisely the right
>> context delights me.
> This is what I find problematic. The fact is, that
> Shakespeare's language is only partly intelligible to a
> modern reader. Thus, in order to appreciate his "mot
> juste" you basically depend on cribs and guidebooks and
> commentaries, on a whole interpretative tradition -
Perhaps you do; I find the great majority of his language
entirely readable. That was true when I first encountered
him ~50 years ago, too. Note that one can appreciate the
language without necessarily catching all of the wordplay
('her C's, her U's, and her T's').
[...]
> If you dislike the word "cult", let's call it a perfectly
> legitimate religion, then. [...]
Your view is no more reasonable for being couched in
slightly less objectionable language.
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From: "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu>
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Subject: Re: Hiya, sci.lang folks! was:Re: Proof that 'Shakespeare' was Edward
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