Pynchon, CofL49 Look What I found in Shakespeare

[Albert Rolls]

And since when did Shakespeare, or Elizabethans in general, worry about anachronism?

Brutus: Peace! count the clock.
Cassius: The clock has stricken three.
 Julius Caesar 

Clocks striking the right time in ancient Rome. Not by a long shot.


-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
>Sent: Oct 25, 2010 11:48 PM
>To: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
>Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Pynchon, CofL49 Look What I found in Shakespeare
>
>>> not to mention that Wittenberg University wasn't to be founded yet for
>>> hundreds of years!
>>
>> Not sure what you mean here; Wittenberg is taken uo fron Ur-Hamlet, so
>> after Luther.
>>
>
>time-of-writing-wise, yes...
>
>but the story is from Saxo Grammaticus (what a cool name), and the
>legend dates from before his time.
>I dunno, don't you always picture the action in Hamlet taking place in
>the darkest of the dark ages?
>
>I mean, like you picture Julius Caesar taking place in ancient Rome,
>not Elizabethan England...right?
>
>so if Wittenberg was founded in 1500 something, it was only a gleam in
>the eye of some monk in a scriptorium somewhere near Elsinore while
>the events in Hamlet occurred
>
>
>
>-- 
>- "Only thing that makes life a gain
>is a southbound ticket on a southbound train"
>- (what I have heard every time till I looked it up today)
>
>Well, the only thing that makes me laugh again
>Is a southbound whistle on a southbound train - Bob Dylan, "Freight Train Blues"