[lbo-talk] Shakespeare

C. G. Estabrook galliher at uiuc.edu
Mon Dec 10 10:51:21 PST 2007


I'm delighted to hear about your five-year-old's talent, but Pollock doesn't set too high a standard. He'd probably not got so far if he hadn't had the support of the CIA and its campaign to dish socialist realism. (See Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War.)

But I agree that these are "hackneyed and ignorant criticisms of S," whom I love. I recently toured Venice with my vademecum's being a guide to the sites that appear in the plays. The author apparently knew the region intimately from a longish residence there. --CGE

Robert Wrubel wrote:
> But C.G., those are old and hackneyed and ignorant criticisms of S (S
> is not a genius because he uses the five-act structure of drama?) --
> like saying my five year-old is a better painter than Jackson
> Pollock.
>
> Bob
>
> "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote: Fair is foul, and foul
> is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air.
>
> The Scottish play "a theatre of simultaneous possibilities"? --CGE
>
> Robert Wrubel wrote:
>> Well, that's a breath of foul air!
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> "C. G. Estabrook" wrote: [Another view...]
>>
>>> From The Times
>> December 8, 2007 Tickets to Othello? Not on your life My brother
>> writes plays and has begged me not to do this. But I must. I detest
>> Shakespeare with all my heart Giles Whittell ...
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