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On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death (not to mention the Queen’s 90th and St George’s Day), Sibyl waxes curmudgeonly. Once a thespian, always a thespian.
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Edith knows how much this annoys Sibyl. But she has to listen to Sibyl sound off about many things, so perhaps she's allowed a few little revenges.
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when you deify a person or a subject the 'experts' become a kind of clergy with all the social dynamics that this implies - and maybe not deliberate at first but they soon become conscious of their power over the faithful - or something ^.^
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and yes i feel the use of language gets lost under the dominance of story or plot - is it really true that audiences want to know what happened but dont care how that tale is told
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It's not true, but language is hard to grasp, and story is easy, so it's no surprise that they sell the easy sell.
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Yeah, and there is something uncomfortable about how Shakespeare is the King of the Canon, prescribed as the best of poetry and Britishness and so on. I think the works do justify the high regard they're held in, but it's depressing that the arbiters can't articulate (or don't understand) why, and present it instead as this orthodoxy that you're supposed to be pre-subscribed to. (The Church of England has the same problem.)
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Oxfordians make me want to peel off my own lips and eat them
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It's all very silly. Summary of my position here.
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yes the implications of that argument bug me now that you mention it - that in order to possess such skill he has to have been patrician rather than some ordinary slob - i have heard the argument that in order to possess this apparent sense of statecraft and the like Shakespeare must have been nobiity - as if authors do not routinely depict worlds they are not part of - hmmph ^.^'
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there's a very good video by Kyle Kallgren where he addresses Roland Emmerich's Anonymous by way of applying his reasoning to Independence Day; that clearly the latter film must have been made by an American with both military and political experience, not to mention experience of information technology, and therefore could not have been made by the obvious impostor Emmerich
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hmm watching it now :)
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This is a lovely little comic.
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Thanks :)
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