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   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, alt.fan.tom-servo   
   From: strueb@carpedementem.org   
      
   On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 10:30:40 +0100, Paul Harper    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:39:27 -0400, shawn    
   >wrote:   
   >   
      
   >>   
   >>And would utterly fail as a product of television. The problem is that   
   >>while Shakespeare was a tremendous talent his audience was a very   
   >>different one from the mass audience you find viewing television   
   >>today. That kind of prose would turn viewers away in droves.   
   >   
   >Not in this country. Some of the BBC's best and most loved productions   
   >over the last several decades have been Shakespere productions.   
   >   
   (breaking my cardinal rule on x-posting - Oh, I'm bad!)   
      
   All right!  What did you do with the *real* Paul Harper?  He knows how   
   to spell (the contemporary version of) Shakespeare!   
      
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