Oh,
And I meant to add: Joseph Fiennes has too much hair (and Ralph Fiennes, not enough).
Best,
Kim
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> I say cast Joseph Fiennes as Mary Sidney ... --Tom
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> I agree, Kim. I didn't mean to imply this was a national emergency, just something to get to at some point. I suppose I feel especially sensitive to the authorship nonsense. When I curated the King James "Manifold Greatness" exhibition for the Folger, I wrote a blog entry entitled, "Shakespeare did not write the King James Bible, no way, no how," which incidentally seems to have gotten more hits than any other post. https://manifoldgreatness.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/shakespeare-did-not-write-the-king-james-bible-no-way-no-how/
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> Even apart from the "speculation" section, Mary Sidney's page could use some reworking, as you suggest re. the presentation to Elizabeth. The Sidney Psalms need not be termed a "metaphrase," for instance, since (a) that's really Dryden's later designation, and (b) such distinctions were not at all clear, even for Dryden. I'd also push the claim for influence further, since without the Sidney Psalms no Herbert's Temple, nor really the entire development of the English religious lyric as we know it. Nor, but for the Countess, would we know Philip Sidney in anything like the way we do. Here's an idea -- where's an enterprising film maker? A Mary Sidney biopic, starring -- Cate Blanchett? Or maybe Anna Maxwell Martin? Eddie Redmayne as Philip?
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> Cheers,
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> Hannibal
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> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Kimberly Anne Coles <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
> Hi Hannibal,
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> I just read through the entry, and I don't have any real problems with it. It does, as you say, seem to lend some authority to an idea that I would dismiss out of hand; but since the idea laid out under the rubric of "Speculation on Sidney as Shakespeare," it is appropriately couched. The article gets some things wrong--a copy of the Sidney-Pembroke Psalter was prepared for Elizabeth, but never actually presented to her--but it is, on the whole, accurate. I am a bit bothered that so many of the claims seem to need citation, which would suggest that the article is still in draft stage.
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> All to say that we should tinker, but there is, to my mind, no urgency. I would not, myself, be able to get to it right away (start of term...you know).
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> Best,
> Kim
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> Dear Sidneians (Spenserians too),
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> I was looking at the Wikipedia page on Mary Sidney, and was irritated to see that it closes with a section on "Speculation on Sidney as Shakespeare" that seems to take this silly idea seriously. There's a list of publications, including Robin Williams' "first comprehensive look at the documented evidence." As curious cultural history, this section seems reasonable and interesting enough (as would something on the Authorship Controversy on the Shakespeare page), but it ought to be presented as such, not as an idea any serious scholar entertains.
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> Hence my challenge. I know the Spenser Society takes care to look after the Spenser Wikpedia page, but it seems to me someone might update Mary Sidney's. Any takers?
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