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Originally posted by JJboy:
Uh, ya. Where exactly did you, Nos, find that little bit of wishful thinking? (About Shakespere)
A docuementary on A&E, one on the Discovery Channel.
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I love this board! The sophistication of the research leaves me in awe! How does this square with the assertion that Bacon (or Marlowe) wrote Shakespeare's work? I suppose he was too busy with all the scholarly work involved in translating.
The KJV is a spectacularly good document because this was a Golden Age for English Literature. Shakespeare, Jonson, Milton, Donne, Sidney, Wyatt...the list is endless. Readers in those days had a much higher expectation of quality than nowadays, and writers had to respond. Our literature (like our art) cannot compare to it. That is the reason reading the KJV is such an emotive experience - try reading any of the Metaphysical Poets and get the same effect.
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