XPost: rec.arts.tv, rec.arts.sf.tv, rec.arts.movies.current-films   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, alt.fan.tom-servo   
   From: fn62@dial.pipex.com   
      
   "Paul Harper"  wrote in message   
   news:fcanc21mmsgiit72dioag0n7q45eaijgsj@4ax.com...   
   > 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...   
   >   
      
   You probably did O level English at about the same time I did. Mind you.   
   Shakespere is only one of a myriad spellings.   
      
   Ali   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)