Comments on: Shakespeare, William http://earthpages.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/shakespeare/ Putting it all together Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:22:37 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Earthpages.ca http://earthpages.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/shakespeare/#comment-11829 Earthpages.ca Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:31:24 +0000 http://earthpages.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/shakespeare/#comment-11829 Thanks for the corrections posted thus far. As for your opinions, hopefully I'll have time at some later date to take you up on them. --MC Thanks for the corrections posted thus far.

As for your opinions, hopefully I’ll have time at some later date to take you up on them.

–MC

]]> By: Rob Spence http://earthpages.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/shakespeare/#comment-11815 Rob Spence Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:34:47 +0000 http://earthpages.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/shakespeare/#comment-11815 I'm not sure what the point of this entry is, as the bare facts of Shakespeare's life and times are available in thousands of locations. I'd suggest, however, some revisions: it's playwright, not playwrite; it's the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and the King's Men; Shakespeare didn't lease the Globe- he was a member of the theatre company which did; what is "mystical" about Shakespeare?; what's the point of the Goethe comparison? Goethe is generally considered Germany's national poet, as Shakespeare is England's, Racine is France's and so on; where's the evidence that Queen Elizabeth approved of his work, beyond the fact that it is thought one or two plays were performed at court?; I don't think there's any evidence of another Globe built before the first burned down; actors in the BBC Shakespeare are, generally, British, so they speak with British accents- I don't know what an ancestrally inherited accent might be; some of the BBC Shakespeare has external scenes, but mostly it's studio-bound. I’m not sure what the point of this entry is, as the bare facts of Shakespeare’s life and times are available in thousands of locations. I’d suggest, however, some revisions:
it’s playwright, not playwrite;
it’s the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, and the King’s Men;
Shakespeare didn’t lease the Globe- he was a member of the theatre company which did;
what is “mystical” about Shakespeare?;
what’s the point of the Goethe comparison? Goethe is generally considered Germany’s national poet, as Shakespeare is England’s, Racine is France’s and so on;
where’s the evidence that Queen Elizabeth approved of his work, beyond the fact that it is thought one or two plays were performed at court?;
I don’t think there’s any evidence of another Globe built before the first burned down;
actors in the BBC Shakespeare are, generally, British, so they speak with British accents- I don’t know what an ancestrally inherited accent might be;
some of the BBC Shakespeare has external scenes, but mostly it’s studio-bound.

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