humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

"Paul Crowley" wrote in message
news:03UBj.24810$j7.452691@news.indigo.ie...
> "William Black" wrote in message
> news:fr8pup$34p$1@registered.motzarella.org...
>
>>> How many great authors can you list
>>> who were brought up in a household
>>> of illiterates?
>>
>> Well DH Lawrence for a start.
>
> See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._H._Lawrence
>
> "The fourth child of Arthur John Lawrence, a barely literate miner,
> and Lydia, née Beardsall, a former schoolmistress . . "
>
> Maybe Victorian schoolmistresses
> could be illiterate?

She didn't bring him up.

>
>> I can't be bothered to look any more up.
>
> What a shame . . . after doing so
> well up to now.

Oh dear, you're about to pay for that one.

>> Shakespeare was educated at an English Grammar School.
>
> Pure nonsense -- in multiple
> dimensions.

You mean he wasn't?

Leaving apart the nonsense that who actually wrote the stuff matters,
because it doesn't, why do people need an aristocratic author?

Is it snobbery or just plain envy of an ordinary man being a genius?


--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.