From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
> And there's that offhand anachronism of portrayiong John Ford as a
> bloody-minded London guttersnipe, a bit of a reach, since when R&J was
> written he would have been 4 or 5 and snug in the family bosom in Devon.
I thought that was John Webster -- would that fit the chronology better?
Though if Webster was born c. 1580 and R&J was written in 1595, he might
equally be anachronistically *old for the character as portayed.
Robin
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