This is extraordinary! Wish I lived in the UK to see it. Please, please, find out a way to reach the rest of the globe. Or is it Globe? (A fervent admirer from Latin America)
Anyone know if there is a recording of "The Man From Stratford" anywhere? (On WS's schooling, reading Bate's book "The Genius of Shakespeare" or Greenblatt's "Will in the World" or Kermode's "The Age of Shakespeare".)
"There's a sort of perception out there that we don't know very much about Shakespeare. Actually that's not true. We know a lot... His life is remarkably well documented. We know he's born in Stratford. He goes to school at the Grammar School." 4.45-5.05 No! This is not KNOWN. Being a top scholar, I'm sure JB will accept there is no surviving record of WS's schooling. It was Rowe's surmise and Chambers agreed that even if WS went to school he was withdrawn early when his father went bust.
George Dillon Actually we do know by what he wrote that the author attended an English grammar school but not a university. Whether he attended the local free school or was privately tutored (his father was quite well off throughout his youth), he did get that education.
That's the thing about scholars like Bate. Their knowledge of Shakespeare is really limited to the texts of his plays and the general living conditions of the time in which he lived in. When comes to the small but telling details, they're surprisingly ignorant.
This is extraordinary! Wish I lived in the UK to see it. Please, please, find out a way to reach the rest of the globe. Or is it Globe? (A fervent admirer from Latin America)
Anyone know if there is a recording of "The Man From Stratford" anywhere?
(On WS's schooling, reading Bate's book "The Genius of Shakespeare" or Greenblatt's "Will in the World" or Kermode's "The Age of Shakespeare".)
"There's a sort of perception out there that we don't know very much about Shakespeare. Actually that's not true. We know a lot... His life is remarkably well documented. We know he's born in Stratford. He goes to school at the Grammar School." 4.45-5.05
No! This is not KNOWN.
Being a top scholar, I'm sure JB will accept there is no surviving record of WS's schooling. It was Rowe's surmise and Chambers agreed that even if WS went to school he was withdrawn early when his father went bust.
George Dillon Actually we do know by what he wrote that the author attended an English grammar school but not a university.
Whether he attended the local free school or was privately tutored (his father was quite well off throughout his youth), he did get that education.
That's the thing about scholars like Bate. Their knowledge of Shakespeare is really limited to the texts of his plays and the general living conditions of the time in which he lived in. When comes to the small but telling details, they're surprisingly ignorant.
What other sources should he have consulted?