SHAKSPER 1993: Re: Shakespeare and the Ancient World

From: Hardy M. Cook (hmcook@boe00.minc.umd.edu)
Date: 12/24/93


Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 4, No. 970.  Friday, 24 December 1993.
 
(1)     From:   Timothy Bowden <tcbowden@clovis.felton.ca.us>
        Date:   Thursday, 23 Dec 93 07:56:32 PST
        Subj:   Re: SHK 4.0966  Re: Shakespeare and the Ancient World
 
(2)     From:   William Godshalk <GODSHAWL@UCBEH>
        Date:   Thursday, 23 Dec 1993 23:28:56 -0500 (EST)
        Subj:   Re: SHK 4.0966  Re: Shakespeare and the Ancient World
 
 
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From:           Timothy Bowden <tcbowden@clovis.felton.ca.us>
Date:           Thursday, 23 Dec 93 07:56:32 PST
Subject: 4.0966  Re: Shakespeare and the Ancient World
Comment:        Re: SHK 4.0966  Re: Shakespeare and the Ancient World
 
> I wonder how many of the men and women in the public theater audiences
> had any bookshelves at all.
 
How about on the stage?  Any recent explication of the lack of any trace
of books in the will or legacy of Will himself?
 
That's what determined Mark Twain the works were all ghost-written, you
know...
 
Timothy Bowden
tcbowden@clovis.felton.ca.us
 
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From:           William Godshalk <GODSHAWL@UCBEH>
Date:           Thursday, 23 Dec 1993 23:28:56 -0500 (EST)
Subject: 4.0966  Re: Shakespeare and the Ancient World
Comment:        Re: SHK 4.0966  Re: Shakespeare and the Ancient World
 
To Phyllis Rackin,
 
Okay, Phyllis, drop the other shoe. Where did those early modern people store
their books if not on bookshelves like decent god-fearing folks?
 
'Tis the season to be jolly, Bill Godshalk



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