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Article #5230Re: Proof that 'Shakespeare' was Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford
From: benlizro
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:33
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:33
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On 2 Mar, 05:58, Christopher Culver <crcul...@christopherculver.com> wrote: > Panu <craoibhi...@gmail.com> writes: > > You know perfectly well that Shakespeare is just a minor, obscure > > dramatist from the dark dungeons of literary history writing in an > > English which is only partly intelligible to the speakers of the > > modern language. If he weren't force-fed to millions of poor > > schoolchildren in that benighted part of the world inhabited by > > monolingual speakers of English, he would already have been consigned, > > if not to merciful oblivion, so at least to the limbo that is the fate > > of all linguistically and culturally uninteresting writers meriting > > only second-rate academic interest. > > That's a bizarre claim, Panu, as interest in Shakespeare extends far > outside the English-speaking world. Russian poets have long looked to > Shakespeare for inspiration. When visiting the home of an elderly > Romanian, the portion of his library of which he was proudest was a > collection of Shakespeare plays collected with great difficulty during > a time of privation in the country. Kurosawa felt Shakespeare's plays > were so universal in their conception that he localized _King Lear_ > for his film "Ran". ...and _Macbeth_ for "Throne of Blood". Sándor Weöres quoted Shakespeare for the epigraph > of at least once collection of poems. The list goes on. > > Indeed, I'd say that the obligatory assignment of Shakespeare in the > English-speaking world leaves pupils with a distaste, while in > countries where people encounter him with a bit more liberty, he > arguably invokes more passion.
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