From: dsgood@gmail.com   
      
   John W Kennedy 4/4/15   
      
   "' 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. "   
      
   Not when the plays were SET, but when they were WRITTEN.   Shakespeare was a   
   man of his time, and interpreted the past according to assumptions of his   
   time.   He was a man of England, and his assumptions about what the rest of   
   the world was like had the    
   usual deviations from reality.   
      
   "'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,"   
      
   That's what I saw when I was there.    
      
   "but in some cities (such as New York) putting the menu in the window is   
   required by law.'    
       
   Dan Goodman   
   dsgood@blogspot.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)