[lbo-talk] Shakespeare

[C. G. Estabrook]

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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