Re: a question
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Sun, 17 Jan 1999 13:19:30 -0700 (MST)
Well, yesterday I saw _Shakespeare in Love_ and not to give too much away,
but the bard and Romeo are synthesized quite brilliantly. I think it
was Tom Stoppard's screenplay work that made literature and life intersect
in some of the most lovely ways I've yet seen.
will
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Camille Scaysbrook wrote:
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> Well, this is partially right ... but it would be more correctly like
> identifying William Shakespeare with Romeo, which is a slightly different
> thing. I would assume there are little parts of Shakespeare - and more
> importantly, little parts of his opinions and biases and outlooks on life -
> scattered all the way through his works. I would assume that any writer, if
> they are hoping to convey any sort of message or ethos, would be conveying
> something approximating their own.
>