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then you might never figure anything out. Hence, if you begin
withthe premise that Shakespeare wrote everything for
entertainment purposes, you're already about ninety degrees
off track. It would be like 300 years from now cinematists
thinking of Batman and Robin potent cultural icons who
relaly meant something in a quasi-religious mythological
sense to the people of the 20th century. Say history large
swatches of world history had been significantly wiped away
in the time between 1997 and 2397. Say they we stuck with
guesswork. Say fundamentalist Christianity overcame the world
as it's prevailing philosophy. Do you think there would be any
gay interpretation of Batman and Robin? To me, this is roughly,
very roughly, analagous to this discussion. We live in a world
where homosexuality is largely considered a sin, an abomination,
by a majority of American people. So then... what is our
'take' on shakespeare? Historically accurate? or societally
biased? This discussion serves only to explode that ideological
constraint. i don't claim to know the TRUTH. I just want to
explore what might be reality. The truth is out ther, you know.
Posted by Bill Routhier on April 13, 1997 at 22:12:15
In Reply to "Good point, and..." posted by Cloten on April 13, 1997 at 09:55:41
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