[lit-ideas] How Obscure Can He Get? (Was: Shakespeare's 'Patience on a Monument')
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:58:25 EDT
In a message dated 9/16/2004 10:01:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, goya@xxxxxxx
writes:
Voila. With regard to the argument that emblem books are too =
osbcure=20
to be Shakespeare's source, I say: Balderdash. There's lots of stuff=20
that is obscure in Shakespeare
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Note the subtlety:
There's lots of stuff that is obscure in Shakespeare
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Balderdash to Ritchie's argument that an emblem book
depicting Patienzia is _too_ obscure to
be Shakespeare's source.
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Gist:
What is obscure to Ritchie may not be obscure to Shakespeare? And that
Ritchie is being overhasty in claiming something would be 'obscure' or 'too
obscure' for something to be a source in Shakespeare?
Cheers,
JL
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