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   From: paul@harper.net   
      
   On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:29:46 -0600, Wesley Struebing   
    wrote:   
      
   >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!   
      
   Damn. Okay. Flaggelation branch is poised and ready to go...   
      
   Paul.   
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