…Oh anonymous, how much curiosity you cause. You and your half-friend, pseudonym shadow the walls of history. Who was who? Must know who deep throat is!
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Anyways Original Pronunciation has entered my world en masse this last week. If you are curious about OP then start by pressing here: which leads you to Paul Meier’s excellent free e-book. Ok enough time has past since Don put out his book ‘Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets’. The previous post on Joshua Foer’s attempt to convince us of the usefulness of a memory system failed. His book neither proved nor disproved any value attainable through the acquiring of a larger conscious memory. …Subtitled: the art and science of remembering everything by Joshua Foer. Or how a young journalist for the Rolling Stone won the US Memory Championship in a year. …let’s get to the point. Mark Rylance cryptically throws this nugget of information into his plea for a more open-minded approach to the authorship question. (See Shakespearean Stage post for the video). Obviously we needed to scan this inconclusive tidbit. What is Mark suggesting with this information? So we returned to re-printed between the years 1604-1623. [...] Andrew Gurr, in the Shakespearean Stage edition 3, presents this sketch of the day of your average gallant playgoer by the poet and epigrammist John Davies: Henry Tudor. We all know him, whether as gouty tub o’ lard or gorgeous hunk o’ flesh. He had six wives we know too: divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. The first beheading was Elizabeth’s mum, Anne Boleyn. The first divorce (ever) was Mary’s mum, Catherine of Aragon. Shakespeare who loved history plays wrote a play [...] is a travesty of nature.We have the man with the name wearing the mantle. Fact. The authorship question for the Stratfordians is whether he deserves to wear that mantle. For the truly orthodox Stratfordians the notion that it isn’t he is preposterous. Beneath contempt, infra dig. All other candidates imho seek to denigrate our true, reigning [...] …was given to me by a friend who had the same idea for another medium and then discovered the book. He read it and his after the first 200 pages or so it got better review it didn’t seem particularly thrilling a thriller. But it is Shakespeare based so I took it and filed it [...] |
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