humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Mar 4, 5:50=A0pm, Greg Reynolds wrote:
> Big changes today athttp://www.shakespearefellowship.org/Reviews/Stritmatt=
erAppleton.htm
>
> See Note 2...
>
> It used to read...
> 2 Martin's sobriquet incidentally furnishes the original for the
> Puritan hedgepriest Sir Oliver Martext in As you Like It who performs
> the marriage of William to Audrey over the vociferous objections of
> the authorial satirist Touchstone, a passage thought by Alex McNeil
> ("Come Sweet Audrey, We Must be Married, Or We Must Live in Bawdry,"
> unpublished manuscript, presented at the 23rd annual SOS conference in
> Newton MA, November 11-14, 1999), among others, to be a satirical
> allegory of the alienation of the Shakespeare corpus, symbolized in
> the figure of Audrey, to the Stratford William.
>
> Now it reads...
> 2 Martin's sobriquet incidentally furnishes the original for the
> Puritan hedge-priest Sir Oliver Martext in As you Like It who
> anticipates performing the marriage of to Audrey to William over the
> vociferous objections of the authorial satirist Touchstone, a passage
> thought by Alex McNeil ("Come Sweet Audrey, We Must be Married, Or We
> Must Live in Bawdry," unpublished manuscript, presented at the 23rd
> annual SOS conference in Newton MA, November 11-14, 1999), among
> others, to be a satirical allegory of the alienation of the
> Shakespeare corpus, symbolized in the figure of Audrey, to the
> Stratford William.
>
> Change is good, Fellowes, but grammar is bad!
>
> (Hedge-priest got hyphenated and the marriage now is just anticipated,
> but someone added a runaway "of.")
>
> Stay tuned. It will have to change again.
>
> Greg Reynolds
>
> i won't even bother complaining that Notes are used to verify and
> clarify, not for introducing new points that go unscrutinized--such as
> Touchstone as authorial voice.
>
> Note the intent of making points on a subject you do not understood.
>
> And where's the apology? Where's the thanks?
> (Never mind. Shakespeare thanked me.)

Thanks, Greg. :)