Pynchon, CofL49 Look What I found in Shakespeare

[alice wellintown]

The play is more than "a collection of private jokes and satires of
verbal affectations. It is a lively argument on the popular side of
the widespread Renaissance conflict between art and nature." H.D

The dense portraits of Shakespeare's contemporaries and the satire of
their many endeavors, "The School of Atheism" and the like, make this
play quite Pynchon-like. Of course, to hold a mirror up to Nature is
art, to usurp her beauty is sin. The heretical Milton might find more
in common with Pynchon's romantic heretics than Bill of Avon.

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Love's Labour's Lost, Act 4, Scene 2
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> Holofernes:
> "Master Person, quasi pierce-one" * and if one
> should be pierced, [pronounced persed] which is the one?
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> *This is sometimes taken as an allusion to Nashe's "Pierce Penniless,
> His Supplication to the Devil", a fantastic satire in which the author,
> in the character of Pierce, comments on the vices of the times; also
> to Harvey's answer "Pierce's Supererogation" in which Pierce is
> referred to as "the hogshead of wit"...
>
> Alice, anyone, anyone who has read more of the academic books than I have,
> is this in any of them?   (and don't have the Companion to, which I have read
> much of but cannot remember this.)
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