Word: greenblatt
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...added a quantitative component to the Core and toughened the language requirement. After a couple of sparse years, the Core has rebounded to offer a sizable number of new classes. Several departments have seen the arrival of renowned scholars, from William Julius Wilson in Afro-American Studies to Stephen Greenblatt in English. On the other hand, the last four years have also seen the depletion of the Government and History departments, particularly Americanists; the mass exodus of junior faculty from the English department; the seeming failure, if not iniquity, of the tenure system in the cases of government professors Bonnie...
...First, she assumes that when Levin Professor Literature Stephen J. Greenblatt wrote in The New York Times that the movie could have "depicted Shakespeare writing his sonnet to a fair young man," Greenblatt meant that the movie could have, and should have, presented Shakespeare as homosexual. In fact, Lewis presents no evidence at all that Greenblatt thinks Shakespeare was homosexual...
First, she assumes that when Levin Professor Literature Stephen J. Greenblatt wrote in The New York Times that the movie could have "depicted Shakespeare writing his sonnet to a fair young man," Greenblatt meant that the movie could have, and should have, presented Shakespeare as homosexual. In fact, Lewis presents no evidence at all that Greenblatt thinks Shakespeare was homosexual...
...most provocative contention in Greenblatt's article is his conclusion: "Perhaps the studios underestimated how much Americans love talent: even if the film had depicted Shakespeare writing his sonnet to a fair young man, audiences may have delighted in his overwhelming success...
...Sadly, Greenblatt is mistaken. First, the movie was called "Shakespeare in Love," not "Shakespeare at Work." Greenblatt has a bit too much faith in the American public if he actually thinks that Shakespeare's peerless talent drew hoards of theatergoers rather than the movie's tragic plot...