From: dmatthews03@sympatico.ca   
      
   "Steve Grimm"  wrote in message   
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   > "Cori"  wrote in message   
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   > > Obviously, everyone had the Bible, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare,   
   and   
   > > maybe Pilgrim's Progress.  If they had time to read all four of   
   those   
   > > and then get bored, I don't know.   
   >   
   > Shakespeare was one book carried by Wyatt Earp and I think John   
   Ringo also.  Wyatt memorized verses from Shakespeare.  How much of   
   > it he understood is another matter.  I suspect reading Shakespeare   
   was a status symbol more than anything else.   
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   I always liked that scene in "My Darling Clementine" where the drunken   
   Shakespearean actor cannot finish the "To be or not to be.." soliloquy   
   and Doc Holliday (Victor Mature) finishes it for him. I know Mature   
   was miscast and the Holliday character in the movie was a travesty of   
   the historical one but I thought Mature's acting was pretty good and   
   his Shakespearean reading excellent.   
      
   Dave in Toronto   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)