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   From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   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.   
      
   Except that Shakespeare /was/ a popular writer, who was looked down upon   
   by the intellectuals of his day. Indeed, it wasn't until the 19th   
   century that the general academic opinion finally abandoned altogether   
   the position that might be summarized as: "Shakespeare: great talent;   
   pity he was a barbarian who didn't know how to write plays properly."   
      
   Oh, and most of his quotable stuff is verse.   
      
   --   
   John W. Kennedy   
   "The blind rulers of Logres   
   Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."   
      -- Charles Williams.  "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"   
      
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