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On Feb 28, 2:12 pm, Panu <craoibhi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 28, 9:01 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote:
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> > On Feb 28, 12:00 pm, Panu <craoibhi...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On Feb 28, 5:00 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote:
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> > > > On Feb 28, 9:55 am, Panu <craoibhi...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > On Feb 28, 3:47 pm, "Peter Farey" <pete...@rey.prestel.co.uk> wrote:
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> > > > > > "Panu" wrote:
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> > > > > > > Franz Gnaedinger wrote:
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> > > > > > > > Proof that 'Shakespeare' was Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford
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> > > > > > > Who the hell is interested in Shakespeare anyway?
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> > > > > > Rather more than those who are interested in Na'vi or Dnghe I suspect?
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> > > > > I'm not talking about quantity, but quality. Besides, Shakespeare
> > > > > would not interest anyone if he wasn't so heavily subsidized.
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> > > > What _are_ you talking about? (Both points.)
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> > > 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.-
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> > And of the crowds of Elizabethan playwrights, why is he the only one
> > whose works are regularly produced, even though they received no
> > special attention during his lifetime?
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> You tell me. The Shakespeare cult has been around for so long that it
> is self-sustaining by now. Everybody sees it as their duty to praise
> the Emperor's new clothes.

You don't seem to know much about Shakespeare ... he was admired by
Samuel Johnson; bizarre abridgments of the plays were produced in
Johnson's time, notably by David Garrick; in subsequent decades, the
tragedies were provided with happy endings; and one Mr. Bowdler
removed anything that might be considered salacious.

The Booths didn't perform what today we recognize as Shakespeare's
texts.

Shakespeare as we know it is a phenomenon of the mid to late 20th
century.

> > Why is he the one who so thrilled the luminaries of the German
> > Enlightenment?
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> Even McPherson's execrable fake "Ossian" thrilled contemporary
> luminaries. Today, nobody touches "Ossian", while many of those
> luminaries, such as Goethe, are still remembered. Literary history
> certainly knows many example of modest or mediocre works that have
> inspired vastly superior writing.-

Did Lessing translate Ossian?