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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4868209, member: 110504"]Thank you Lots, [USER=83956]@Gavin Richardson[/USER], for your anticipatedly incisive observations.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you lots, [USER=83956]@Gavin Richardson[/USER], for your predictably incisive observations. Yeah, <i>two </i>inexhaustible plays. Any opus of this depth is <i>asking </i>you, independently of whether Shakespeare would, from where <i>he</i> is, to read it in (your Own) Real Time. ...Does this mean I like restagings where the cast is all Mafia, or, whatever, wearing leather? Maybe not, but, well, yeah, interpretively, this stuff is very literally inexhaustible.</p><p>Regarding Shakespeare's own disputed origins, why not, we could start with the notion that he couldn't <i>possibly </i>have been that smart without being descended from some (already frighteningly inbred) member of the English aristocracy. That can summarily go sailing out the window. (Defenestration of Prague, anyone?) But meanwhile, I gravitate to the thesis of Michael Wood, that he was likely a Catholic. While not of this communion myself (...can we just kind of summarily give up on the 'some of my best friends' construct? <b>Thank</b> you!!!), it's easy to resonate with how someone of this demonstrated level of acuity could easily learn to identify with other, (very) variously marginalized groups of people.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4868209, member: 110504"]Thank you Lots, [USER=83956]@Gavin Richardson[/USER], for your anticipatedly incisive observations. Thank you lots, [USER=83956]@Gavin Richardson[/USER], for your predictably incisive observations. Yeah, [I]two [/I]inexhaustible plays. Any opus of this depth is [I]asking [/I]you, independently of whether Shakespeare would, from where [I]he[/I] is, to read it in (your Own) Real Time. ...Does this mean I like restagings where the cast is all Mafia, or, whatever, wearing leather? Maybe not, but, well, yeah, interpretively, this stuff is very literally inexhaustible. Regarding Shakespeare's own disputed origins, why not, we could start with the notion that he couldn't [I]possibly [/I]have been that smart without being descended from some (already frighteningly inbred) member of the English aristocracy. That can summarily go sailing out the window. (Defenestration of Prague, anyone?) But meanwhile, I gravitate to the thesis of Michael Wood, that he was likely a Catholic. While not of this communion myself (...can we just kind of summarily give up on the 'some of my best friends' construct? [B]Thank[/B] you!!!), it's easy to resonate with how someone of this demonstrated level of acuity could easily learn to identify with other, (very) variously marginalized groups of people.[/QUOTE]
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