Why not a Middleton or Webster or Jonson or Ford or Shirley or Marston or Dekker or Beaumont and Fletcher year instead? The best thing ever said about Shakespeare was Robert Benchely's grouse that "Shakespeare (or the Immortal Bard, as his wife used to call him) isn't that great. I give 400 more years." And yes, the Oxonians are wankers. I had one as a high school teacher. I scored revenge on her when she said the Globe burnt down during a performance of Hamlet. I raised my hand and said it had actually burnt down during a performance of Henry VIII.
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Date: 2008-01-18 10:57 pm (UTC)The best thing ever said about Shakespeare was Robert Benchely's grouse that "Shakespeare (or the Immortal Bard, as his wife used to call him) isn't that great. I give 400 more years." And yes, the Oxonians are wankers. I had one as a high school teacher. I scored revenge on her when she said the Globe burnt down during a performance of Hamlet. I raised my hand and said it had actually burnt down during a performance of Henry VIII.