COL 49 Chapter 4 Starters

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Wrote Calbert:

<<....one of the points I think P is trying to make is that what the world, 
for the most part credits to Shakespeare, is, in fact owed in greater amount 
to people like Kyd, Marlowe and Middleton. >>

Try as I may, I can find no context to contain what you're saying.  WHAT does 
the world credit Shakespeare, erroneously or overly, relative to Kyd, 
Marlowe, Middleton?  

On another point:  

In the Introduction to Penguin's Three Jacobean Tragedies (Tourneur, "The 
Revenger's Tragedy"; Webster, "The White Devil"; Middleton, "The 
Changeling"), one Gamini Salgado writes:  

"... but [Tourneur's] relationship to the older Morality drama is clearly 
seen in the near-abstract [character] names  which he chose--Vindice 
(Vengeance), Castiza (Chastity), Supervacuo (Over-foolish), Lussurioso 
(Luxury = Lust), Gratiana (Grace), and so on.  Clearly, then, we are to 
regard these characters not as complex and variable individuals, but as 
personifications of certain qualities which come into contact with one anot
her in the play."

Might this, perhaps, be the idea behind the flatness of Pynchon's characters?

Further, from the Introduction:

"The danger of this approach to character is monotony. "