[lit-ideas] Re: How Obscure Can He Get? (Was: Shakespeare's 'Patience on ...
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:52:40 EDT
Thanks for M. Chase providing the schema of the argument (or 'schemata', as
Eric Idle would say, in Greek) -- which concludes:
>Therefore, there are occasions when Shakespeare did use
>obscure allusions. And the case of sitting on a rock, clearly a
>reference to the emblematic tradition, is one of them.
It's ironic you should use 'clearly' when the thing under discussion is
'obscurity' in Shakespeare.
I agree with Chase that possibly Shakespeare (= Bacon) possibly could _care_
(no) less about what the Globe audiences would _catch_ (or fail to catch,
for that matter).
In general, he is not obscure; but in particular, he is.
Cheers,
JL
Refs.
Geary, J. M. Obscure Symbols in Shakespeare: Their Meaning and
Signification. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press [private publication].
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