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You wrote (quoting from your "edition" of Shakespeare):
>>> The woman was of a stained character, false to
her husband, the reverse of beautiful, dark eyed, pale faced, a musician,
possesed of a strange power of attraction....
Now, no one here is talking about literary characters, they
are talking about real people who existed who Shakespeare wrote the
sonnets about. <<Wrong, wrong. wrong.
If you will also check the textual notes surrounding A Midsummer Night's
Dream, you will find references to "Puck" as if he were a living, breathing
character. If you check references to Macbeth, you will find
similar references to the witches as if they were somehow
"real."If an editor's literary analysis (is your "proof" that
the sonnets are autobiographical, then you are easily duped.-Bruce
Posted by Bruce Spielbauer on April 14, 1997 at 05:12:31
In Reply to "I wasn't being hard on academics" posted by Bill Routhier on April 13, 1997 at 21:54:38
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