[lbo-talk] Nice play Bill! (was: Re: more on the econ Nobel )

[paul childs]

>He may be, but if so, he shouldn't be.  People as various as
>Freud, Whitman, and Mark Twain (see his "Is Shakespeare
>Dead?") have known that there's something wrong with the
>attribution to the man from Stratford.  See now the quite
>brilliant book by Diana Price, Shakespeare's Unorthodox
>Biography.  --CGE
>
>"Max B. Sawicky" wrote:
>> 
>> Why do we say Shakespeare wrote the plays when it was
really someone else
>> using the name Shakespeare?
>>
>
>You are, I hope, joking?
>
>Carrol

FWIW my step father was a professional stage actor, trained at RADA in Britain, he and others have
said that when you're 'doing' Shakespeare you can tell there are parts done by writers
other than the Bard. These were segments likely added by later writers, producers, even actors
to make the play flow better, build a character etc.

IMHO I don't really care if it was one person that wrote every word, or if like other
great pieces of story telling it started with on person and was built on from there to what we
recognize as the modern version of the plays. 500 years from now the plays probably won't look like
they do now. Trying to figure it out is great fun though.

PC

N P Childs

'I'm Mister Bad Example, the stranger in the dirt,
I like to have a good time and I don't care who gets hurt'.

-Mr. Bad Example, W Zevon