tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post3091627783755348854..comments2024-02-23T03:28:33.435-05:00Comments on Culture Industry: Shakespeare?Mark Scrogginshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431113440875342809noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-43334595650737772342007-03-22T23:47:00.000-04:002007-03-22T23:47:00.000-04:00(What words, I wonder, will a hundred years hence ...<I>(What words, I wonder, will a hundred years hence mark the texts written after September 11?)</I><BR/><BR/>"Miserable failure" leaps immediately to mind.Brian Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15258964922666185002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-87678851606331110162007-03-22T19:18:00.000-04:002007-03-22T19:18:00.000-04:00I had quite a Middleton year last year. I saw Wome...I had quite a Middleton year last year. I saw Women Beward Women at the RSC in Stratford, and also saw a strange summer production of A Game At Chess on a very large chessboard (already existing in the garden) in Durham. Then I also saw The Changeling and the Revenger's Tragedy in London. It opened out his plays for me, as I don't really like to read a play before actually seeing it - A Game at Chess in particular I expected to be funny in an 1620s sort of way, but a lot of the jokes - about the law for example - slid sideways.Edmund Hardyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00577772055947332383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-23717301918746564082007-03-22T09:27:00.000-04:002007-03-22T09:27:00.000-04:00What I always read into these fantasies is a class...What I always read into these fantasies is a class bias not unlike the one that Shakespeare encountered in his own day, the premise that someone with his background couldn't possibly compete with the so-called university wits. <BR/><BR/>I've always thought that the sonnets (not my favorite of his works) was designed specifically to show Jonson et al that he could best them at their own form as well as in his "base" popular entertainments like Lear. <BR/><BR/>RonRonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923noreply@blogger.com