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i have to say

please excuse multiples of this, but the >> are Bruce's quotes.

bruce, you wrote... in response

>>> 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." >>

I don't like to get personal in this, but I have to say that
this is an incredibly baseless statement. It flies in the faces of
reality in the discussion of the sonnets. It has no grounds in
critical scholarship, and is a foolish statement.

Posted by Bill Routhier on April 15, 1997 at 22:43:46
In Reply to "Again?" posted by Bruce Spielbauer on April 14, 1997 at 05:12:31

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