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Good question, dave, but I for one haven't got a quick answer.  It's certainly possible to locate the beginning of the ...  Actually, I was about to raise a name when I suddenly thought, maybe earlier.

Then you've got the instantiation of Shakespeare as The Playwright by Garrick, well before the Academy sticks a spoon into the pudding.  And probably the currency of English (as opposed to Latin/Greek) texts in Working Men's Institutions, and then the rise of the place of English in Real Universities, and ideas of the canon, and literature (or "literature") and ...

Not really my scene.  Back to you, me dook.

Do  your own bloody homework!

Robin

On 25 October 2016 at 19:33 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Just an aside here, and a wandering thought, but is there a relationship between the adoption of Shakespeare as a teaching text and the growth of the Authorship Question? The key objections to WS as author seem to be low social status combined with lack of formal education.

On 25 October 2016 at 14:03, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]om> wrote:

Yes (and no) -- unless you're a born-again New Critic, in which case, the strait answer is, "It's a no-no!"

R.

On 25 October 2016 at 13:56 David Lace <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


Does it matter who wrote the bloomin' plays?




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