humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

"Paul Crowley" wrote in message
news:PjWBj.24812$j7.452881@news.indigo.ie...


> . . . . With that long list of great authors
> brought up in illiterate households -- that
> you could not be bothered to write out
> last time?

No. I said I couldn't be bothered to look.

That's because it's obviously futile.

But ten minutes with my Chambers Dictionary of Literary Biography produces
your humiliation...

We don't know that much about Marlow, but we do know his father was a
shoemaker and so probably illiterate, Jonson's father's family were a
notorious border riever family actually noted for their ignorance and
brutality but his step father was a bricklayer and probably illiterate and
Inigo Jones was the son of Catholic cloth worker but baptised a Protestant
(Catholics were excluded from education and his dad was probably illiterate
as well)

This all being the case I expect posts from twonks at any moment saying that
some lordling who was on campaign in Ireland at the time wrote the bloody
lot...

Oh yes, almost as an aside, Henslowe's dad was a game keeper, albeit a
senior one.

It remains a fact, although one that you seem to be in denial about, that
Elizabethan England had provably the most socially mobile population in
English history before the twentieth century.


>
> You will never produce it -- since you can't.

I just have

> Writers do not emerge from illiterate
> households


Oh yes they do...

See above



--
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.