Comments on: Why Shakespeare matters http://politicworm.com Shakespeare authorship Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:42:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Fred Nergenah http://politicworm.com/oxford-shakespeare/why-shakespeare-matters/#comment-554 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:57:18 +0000 http://politicworm.com/?page_id=982#comment-554 I recently read this, from a review of Kenneth Clark’s PBS series “Civilization”, by Terry Teachout:

‘Then Clark reads the stately words of John Ruskin: “Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts, the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others, but of the three the only trustworthy one is the last.”‘

It occurred to me that the Shakespeare canon embodies all 3 manuscripts, at least with Oxford as author. On the other hand, with the Stratford guy as author one is. one dimensionally, left with a book of words.

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