[lbo-talk] Here she goes again

[andie nachgeborenen]

Only partly true. WS was a shareholding member of the
leading theater company in the country -- the lord
Chamberlain's Men, renamed the King's Men under James
I -- this was with Royal permission, you didn't go
around calling yourself that unless the King and his
court approved --; his plays were attended by royalty
and nobility as well as plebeians, he was close enough
to Important People to feel the whisper of the ax when
his client (and possible boyfriend) Southampton -- he
was engaged to write sonnets to make the little
wretch, obviously gay as coot, marry -- got mixed up
with the doomed Essex rebellion; he dedicated his
published poetry, which was quite popular, to
Southampton; There is solid evidence that Elizabeth I
knew the some of plays well and James loved theater
and probably knew them. And despite WS's small Latin
and less Greek the plays themselves are astoundingly
learned -- enough so that snobs who can't believe a 
glover's son from Stratford On Avon who never went to
University could learn so much so fast have spent some
centuries trying to prove that WS was someone suitably
Aristocratic with an Oxbridge MA.

But no, Cheney doesn't care. WS is a just a club for
her to beat leftists. You know that.

--- Chuck <chuck at mutualaid.org> wrote:


> Carrol Cox wrote:
> > Picked up on another list, reference to a
> "report," issued by the
> > American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA)
> (which is headed by Lynne
> > Cheney), entitled "The Vanishing Shakespeare" and
> condemns English
> > departments around the country for abandoning
> traditional authors such
> > as Shakespeare and teaching courses in popular
> culture and theory. It
> > urges alumni, students and parents to demand
> change at their various
> > universities.
> 
> Does Lynne Cheney know that Shakespeare was the pop
> culture of his time 
> in England?
> 
> Chuck
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