Mon, 6 Jul 1998 01:13:39 +0000
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Vern:
> Do you agree with Twain's views on Shakespeare? Or do you think the
> main
> value of his essay on Shakespeare was his tale about his arguments
> with the
> steamboat pilot?
> Vern you missed the boat on this one!
> I agree with Twain's views on Shakespeare found in his last book, "Is
> Shakespeare Dead?"Twain along with many more astute writers have
> seen thru the Stratford illusion to voice their opinion. It's more
> of a common sense choice rather than an ingrained sentimental choice
> to realise as Twain did that Shakespeare did not have the
> circumstances of a celebrated writer even in his home town of
> Stratford. It took over a 100 years for him to gain a popularity in
> Stratford, thanks in part to an outsider and entrepenuer named David
> Garrick. Twain used his own celebrityhood as an example of how he was
> fully acknowledged while he was ALIVE in Hannibal. Is Shakespeare
> Dead? is Mark Twain writing as a journalist with a keen eye and not
> afraid to shake his spear at a few "Tragolydites" including his
> steamboat pilot Ealer. Clemens was Twain as Bacon was Shakespeare.
Twain's passion for Francis Bacon as author of Shakespeare can be
viewed in a letter he dictatedin 1909. See
http://www.sirbacon.org/links/marktwainletter.html And for Vern, visit
http://www.sirbacon.org to get on course.Cheers,Lawrence Gerald
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"If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read
Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we
may study his commentators." -- Hazlitt
"The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power."-Francis Bacon
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