From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   On 2015-04-04 20:33:34 +0000, dsgood@gmail.com said:   
      
   > -"Fiction always reflects the time in which it's written, not the time   
   > in which it's set.  So what's the problem?"-   
   >   
   > The same is true of Shakespearean criticism.   But that's not what it's   
   > supposed to be about; it's supposed to be about Shakespeare in his own   
   > time and place.   
      
   I cannot for the life of me think what you mean by that. There is no   
   play by Shakespeare set in late 15th-, early 16th-century England,   
   aside from the consensus that "The Merry Wives of Windsor", officially   
   set in the reign of Henry IV, comes far closer to representing late   
   Elizabethan reality. If a play by Shakespeare is "here", it takes place   
   a hundred to two thousand years in the past; if it is "now" it is set   
   on the Continent.   
      
   > Places you haven't been to in a while have undergone change.  In 1965,   
   > some Paris restaurants had hectographed menus in their windows; this is   
   > probably no longer the case.   (This wasn't mentioned in any guidebook   
   > I read.  If you visit any place, and don't notice anything which isn't   
   > in guidebooks, I recommend an immediate medical checkup.)   
      
   I can't speak to Paris, and I doubt the hectograph, but in some cities   
   (such as New York) putting the menu in the window is required by law.   
      
   --   
   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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