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...Shakespeare advocates dismiss this as snobbery, saying that even a basic education at the time would have been enough for Will to write his plays. And, if you emphasize - as Stratfordians do - that most of Shakespeare's plays were adapted from older works, what he lacked in experience he could have made up for in imagination. "The problem is that argument presupposes that plays from the period consisted of this hidden autobiography," says leading Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate. "That's a modern image of the writer as someone who puts his own experiences into his plays, a very romantic idea...
...father, who framed a copy of the letter, said with pride, "The President of the United States took the time to write...
...others sometimes inflected the same sentence for maximum disdain: "The President of the United States has the time to write ... you?" Whether this is meant as a criticism of the President or as a criticism of me, I'm never able to tell. Both, I suspect...
Many blue-staters have made the same joke, each one thinking he is the first to do so. "He can write?" they say, always followed by, "He can read?" I have now passed the letter to countless Americans and a few non-Americans--so many people that I ought to have the letter laminated, like a Waffle House menu. And the one thing that everyone agrees on--red-staters and Greenpeacers--is that he does come off on paper as funny and self-deprecating...
...does it work? Sean, do you just go to Eddie and say, "Here's a bit with a guy hitchhiking. Write a song that would sound good with that...