NP Misc. 'discover this' aspect in Shakespeare?

[Mark Kohut]

Yeah, I have found Mowat's essay after being more sensitized to stage 
interpretation via
my different edition of Richard III.

Nice comparative reading work....

Somewhere in Google Books for something---maybe an edition of Shakespeare?--
I ran across the digitized version of a book in the harvard Library which was 
Charles
Henry Dana's book originally.

I once asked Parker at a book signing if he thought that the possibility that 
Melville
had hit his wife--at least once; and only once I statedly hoped---reportedly 
knocked her down steps a famous letter
she wrote seems to imply----

might have been part of Melville's inspiration for the blow that Billy Budd 
struck?

he thought not...

fyi.


----- Original Message ----
From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, February 27, 2011 6:23:12 PM
Subject: Re: NP Misc. 'discover this' aspect in Shakespeare?

In the Folger Shakespeare you will find Mowat's essay on the implied
stage action in the plays. The essay is so excellent that it has been
adapted to fit several plays. The hand gestures are in the words.
Pynchon, not as skillful as Shakespeare,  knows how to do this, but he
slides into a lazy narrative style as his voice crawls down into his
bad ear.

On another thread, I decided to re-read parts of Parker's Melville to
compare or rather contrast how Pynchon's navy life and Melville's navy
life influenced their early efforts. From here, I decided to re-read
Tanner on White Jacket. In his essay Tanner contrasts Melville work
with Dana's Two Years. Dana, a lawyer, writes like one. But Melville,
a romantic and a poet, boils the blubber down to the sublime. Pynchon
too is a poet of the sublime, a romantic. Why he bothers writing books
for his purse is a mystery. A film? Good God! What an old fool he must
be now.


On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> George Bernard Shaw sez that Shakespeare titled his play
> about love and sex in the Arden forest, As You Like it with
> an emphasis for theater-goers that can be summed up as
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> As YOU like it!...... Take this. Take that!
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