Saturday 3 April 2010

Second Response to The Shakespeare Stealer

Now, The Shakespeare Stealer is getting interesting. There is some funny language in it for example what is a dolt?? Widge has just found out who his master is... and is set out to do the copying of Hamlet. "Now someone sooner or later will pry this Tragedy of Hamlet from the hands of its poet.....just as they did with Romeo and Juliet and Titus Andronicus."(33) Looks like that the modern day pirating happened back then, but with plays. This is quite unfortunate, somebody needed to invent the law "copyright". Widge isn't very educated due to all the "ayes" and "wis". He sounds like a pirate. I did not know what Lord Chamberlain's men were, so I Goolged it and found out that it was a play company that Shakespeare for in his career. It was also one of the two leading companies in London, at the time. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Chamberlain's_Men)
On page 46 there is mention of bearbatings.. Thats really cruel and it is a crime against animals, How do people like watching that?????Hopefully Widge does not get yelled at when he comes back with half the play...

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