Shakespeare for Shakespeare!
Apr. 20th, 2011 11:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardAcademic fail: I just tried to start my Shakespeare paper with the words "Edmund Spenser." Yeah, no. (Not even in a relevant way, as in "Edmund Spenser's play Measure for Measure." AS IN I FORGOT SHAKESPEARE WROTE SHAKESPEARE.)
Although on that note, yes, I've seen the trailer for Anonymous, it makes me inordinately angry. As my Shakespeare professor says, "Well, the reason Edward de Vere couldn't have written Shakespeare is because he DIED in 1604, and Shakespeare kept publishing until 1616, and his work from that period is, you know, relevant to the period. So unless the zombie Earl of Oxford was writing poetry, it is HIGHLY UNLIKELY.
Anyway, here is the trailer, which of course raises the question of, "Huh, Roland Emmerich gave up destroying the world in order to make a movie about a bloke who totally was not Shakespeare?" (Or as I said last semester, when we read Christopher Marlowe so that we could compare the two, "He's a good writer and all, but I have read Shakespeare, and you, sir, are NO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.") Also, is it just me, or is it possible to read Edward de Vere/Queen Elizabeth in that trailer?
I have no excuse for the Spenser thing, though. *slinks off*
Although on that note, yes, I've seen the trailer for Anonymous, it makes me inordinately angry. As my Shakespeare professor says, "Well, the reason Edward de Vere couldn't have written Shakespeare is because he DIED in 1604, and Shakespeare kept publishing until 1616, and his work from that period is, you know, relevant to the period. So unless the zombie Earl of Oxford was writing poetry, it is HIGHLY UNLIKELY.
Anyway, here is the trailer, which of course raises the question of, "Huh, Roland Emmerich gave up destroying the world in order to make a movie about a bloke who totally was not Shakespeare?" (Or as I said last semester, when we read Christopher Marlowe so that we could compare the two, "He's a good writer and all, but I have read Shakespeare, and you, sir, are NO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.") Also, is it just me, or is it possible to read Edward de Vere/Queen Elizabeth in that trailer?
I have no excuse for the Spenser thing, though. *slinks off*