On 4/1/23 1:48 PM, marc hanson wrote:
On Saturday, April 1, 2023 at 12:15:29 PM UTC-4, gggg gggg wrote:
On Saturday, April 1, 2023 at 9:11:35 AM UTC-7, wrote:
Any reactions to what Allan Bloom said?
And what about this?:
- Shakespeare did not consider himself the legislator of mankind. He faithfully records man's problems and does not evidently propose to solve them.
it seems to me that, Shakespeare was simply[!] a poet, playwright, artist, investor/producer
he appears to throw in an opinion, here and there in the canon
“We are rather eclectic about these identifications. We seldom bolster
up our worst designs with the observation: ‘As Milton says, “Evil, be
thou my good”,’ or conclude that because Shakespeare created Iago, therefore he ‘was’ Iago. But we do incline to suppose that a writer can
be somehow cabined, cribbed, confined inside one of his ‘favourite’ characters or one of his more impassioned utterances.”
—Dorothy L. Sayers: “The Mind of the Maker”
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John W. Kennedy
Algernon Burbage, Lord Roderick, Father Martin, Bishop Baldwin,
King Pellinore, Captain Bailey, Merlin -- A Kingdom for a Stage!
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