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From: Sergey Il'yn <isb@glas.apc.org>
>Without getting too much into the authorship controversy, wasn't it quite
>common for Elizabethan playwrights to belong to "lower" social classes?
>Marlowe, whose authorship, as far as I know, has not been disputed, was,
>after all, a son of a cobbler.
>
>As for "nonentities," I do not think this assessment is fair to Roman
>Jakobson.
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>Galya Diment
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>
I don't think that Roman Jakobson was for VN one of "nonentities".
I don't think that VN in 1924 (well before "Mary" and "Vasiliy Shiskoff")
"wrote the poem "Shakespeare" (as well as all his other works, why not?) in
order to spite Adamovich, Ivanov, Wilson and a succession of others" (Peter
Kartzev) - fully mythical "others" at that time. To write his works to spite
someone or other wasn't, I think, VN main purpose.
And what about: "However, the fact that the Warwickshire fellow wrote the
plays is most satisfactorily proved on the strength of an applejohn and a
pale primrose" (BS.7 - 1948, not 1924)?
Best
Sergey B. Il'in
<isb@glas.apc.org>
Moscow (095) 476-68-48
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In nature's strife wen fortitude prevails
The victim falters and the victor fails.
Êîãäà Íàòóðó Äóõ îäîëåâàåò,
Íàòóðà âÿíåò, Äóõ îêîëåâàåò.
Nashe delo veseloe.
>Without getting too much into the authorship controversy, wasn't it quite
>common for Elizabethan playwrights to belong to "lower" social classes?
>Marlowe, whose authorship, as far as I know, has not been disputed, was,
>after all, a son of a cobbler.
>
>As for "nonentities," I do not think this assessment is fair to Roman
>Jakobson.
>
>Galya Diment
>
>
I don't think that Roman Jakobson was for VN one of "nonentities".
I don't think that VN in 1924 (well before "Mary" and "Vasiliy Shiskoff")
"wrote the poem "Shakespeare" (as well as all his other works, why not?) in
order to spite Adamovich, Ivanov, Wilson and a succession of others" (Peter
Kartzev) - fully mythical "others" at that time. To write his works to spite
someone or other wasn't, I think, VN main purpose.
And what about: "However, the fact that the Warwickshire fellow wrote the
plays is most satisfactorily proved on the strength of an applejohn and a
pale primrose" (BS.7 - 1948, not 1924)?
Best
Sergey B. Il'in
<isb@glas.apc.org>
Moscow (095) 476-68-48
Pager: Operator: 961-3333 or 974-2222; Me: 29-942
In nature's strife wen fortitude prevails
The victim falters and the victor fails.
Êîãäà Íàòóðó Äóõ îäîëåâàåò,
Íàòóðà âÿíåò, Äóõ îêîëåâàåò.
Nashe delo veseloe.