TRP Shakespeare

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Steely reports:
"In the same edition of the Times, a female professor at the University of
Chicago (that bastion of bankers and lawyers) bashed Kenneth Branagh's new
film of Hamlet (four hours long, includes every line, including the
Fortinbras subplot) for being "much too long." Hamlet, she observed, was
overwritten. WS used 12 metaphors when 4 would have done! Never thought
about the play *that* way before. Makes sense, though.
 
Yes, indeed. Post-modernism rules!"


Not necessarily.  Ben Jonson said more or less the same thing more than 300
years ago!

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)