Joanna
----- Original Message ----- Except that the Shakespeare works were probably written by Edward de Vere, who didn’t need the money, being the recipient of a munificent grant from the crown…
See now inter alia,
Mark Anderson, "Shakespeare by Another Name: The Life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the Man Who Was Shakespeare” (2005);
Richard Paul Roe, "The Shakespeare Guide to Italy: Retracing the Bard's Unknown Travels” (2011); and
Diana Price, "Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography: New Evidence of an Authorship Problem” (2013).
> On Dec 31, 2015, at 6:16 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> No Hollywood producer is any more anxious to make money than was
> Shakespeare!
>
> Motive is pretty irrelevant. Samuel Johnson claimed a man who wrote for any
> other reason than making money was a blockhead. (I forget his exact
> language.)
>
> Carrol
>
>
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> Most great European directors over the last hundred years have regarded
> Holly wood films as the best to be had. This generic sneer at the near or
> the recent is really moldy w ith the mold of millennia.
>
> Carrol
>
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> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 5:35 PM
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> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Star Wars and the death of American cinema
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>
>
> On 12/31/15 5:50 PM, JOANNA A. wrote:
>> The films of the sixties and even the seventies marked a particular moment
> in the history of American cinema. Nothing before or after quite matched it.
>
> Is it possible that there's some genre conflation here? A comedy is not
> meant to be a tragedy, after all.
>
> The Twentieth Century. Some Like It Hot. It Happened One Night. The Great
> McGinty. The Palm Beach Story. The Bank Dick.
>
> One could go on and on, but are we blaming Aristophanes for not being
> Euripides? Everybody rightly hates the splenetic book reviewer who damns the
> book under his eye because it's not the book he would have written, if he
> could write books.
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