tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230721204401781008.post2391199389099511932..comments2023-10-14T11:21:38.095+01:00Comments on Jonathan Bate: <br>Literary Thoughts // University Matters: Was Chapman Chapman?Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03028066803089090658noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230721204401781008.post-11058736167867489282014-07-04T22:42:09.195+01:002014-07-04T22:42:09.195+01:00I enjoy your commentary on anti-Stratfordians, and...I enjoy your commentary on anti-Stratfordians, and thank you for teaching me the term for the concept I sometimes experience teaching high school seniors in the United States. I personally would not freak out if Shakespeare was not Shakespeare, just a bit disappointed I'm content to ready, think about, write about, and pay homage to Shakespeare, the concept, the man, the idea. I will make my FIRST pilgrimage to Stratford in a couple of weeks - after my AP Oxford Academy at Worcester College. Researching the campus brought me to your blog of which I have the privilege of reading. Kaylene Burcham-Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01742493309226854408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230721204401781008.post-8188391734096587872014-06-20T20:07:30.366+01:002014-06-20T20:07:30.366+01:00A decent example of how our present day scholarshi...A decent example of how our present day scholarship turned upside-down was Furnivall's fisticuffs with Halliwell. Whether Shakespeare's source was Amyot's or North's translation. Neither. We can assume the SCF composed it directly from Plutarch. (SCF = significant creative force.) He was a large ship and all other poets comparably small. They had to give way in its wake.spacethefinalfrontier101https://www.blogger.com/profile/10544171024096507800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230721204401781008.post-34991759598096371192014-06-20T19:40:01.402+01:002014-06-20T19:40:01.402+01:00Tim, During the Elizabethan, do you think human ge...Tim, During the Elizabethan, do you think human geography was still driven by nobility? That's the problem here. It's nothing but agony to see a mainstream scholarship that excels at reading 16th century organizational charts upside down. Almost all their textual sources have to be constantly downgraded because they neither see nor accept the effluence from a significant creative force.spacethefinalfrontier101https://www.blogger.com/profile/10544171024096507800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230721204401781008.post-78135411345047979082014-05-31T11:09:32.240+01:002014-05-31T11:09:32.240+01:00Is English your first language? If it isn't, f...Is English your first language? If it isn't, fair enough, but if it is you might want to try reading and digesting an Orwell essay or two. Oh, and nice surname.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07062241886878753620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230721204401781008.post-41432471300224179302014-05-30T19:23:08.834+01:002014-05-30T19:23:08.834+01:00Stratfordians really get in their own way most of ...Stratfordians really get in their own way most of the time. Considering the myriad skills and expertise shared in the eloquent Shakespeare plays with a perspective always emanating from a native or international seat of nobility - doesn't it seem obvious Shakespeare had a platinum card? But it's greater amusement for me when scholars put their self-imposed blinders on and read Shakespeare. They aren't royalist, they can't see aristocratic skills, and after all, Elizabethan Stratford farmers just didn't farm that way.Greg Kochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16537519746255807006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230721204401781008.post-46937291637977633872014-05-12T17:34:40.826+01:002014-05-12T17:34:40.826+01:00Wish there could be an email list to receive updat...Wish there could be an email list to receive updates on new posts.SBChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00164167191704670417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230721204401781008.post-77937166534771501362014-05-11T09:30:47.013+01:002014-05-11T09:30:47.013+01:00I'd say that they are "hobbyists" wh...I'd say that they are "hobbyists" who have seized on an idea and become obsessed with it. To research and analyse other contemporary authors would distract them from their central theme.<br /><br />It's a bit like the revisionists' desire to "prove" that Richard III did not murder the Princes in the Tower. Many judicial murders and regicides took place throughout the centuries from 1066 onwards, but no-one goes on about them.<br /><br />sensibiliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08715737628925538412noreply@blogger.com