Pynchon, CofL49 Look What I found in Shakespeare

[Robin Landseadel]

And then there's all that Oedipal stuff a-a-a-and what about that  
flaming tongue on the end of the sword . . . .

Oops, wrong book.

On Oct 26, 2010, at 2:27 PM, alice wellintown wrote:

> All true, soory Bailey I misunderstood but I get it now, but the the
> boy-man Hamlet is quite uneven; the idea that he is a college boy, he
> certainly acts in an unmanly manner, and speaks like old Bill
> Shakespeare and like a bunch of other dramatists and mouthpieces is
> but one problem with this problem of a play--a parody of the revenge
> tragedy.
>
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Michael Bailey
> <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Albert Rolls  wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> true, it's fiction, he can put anything in there he wants.

	The fifth act, entirely an anticlimax, is taken up by the
	bloodbath Gennaro visits on the court of Squamuglia.
	Every mode of violent death available to Renaissance
	man, including a lye pit, land mines, a trained falcon
	with envenom'd talons, is employed. It plays, as
	Metzger remarked later, like a Road Runner cartoon
	in blank verse. . .

O-o-o-or maybe Itchy & Scratchy?