Only because the grant-maintained theatre in this country gives
English luvviedom a permanent home in Shakespeare Heritage Land. And
the globe is sponsored heritage, almost as bad, no it's worse because
it's a damn sight more conservative, if that could be at all possible.
(yeah, I can already see the howla) The rest of us are indoctrinated
to this crap at birth. Oh, look, there's Shakespeare the Genius. Bah,
humbug. Yeah, more like Shakespeare the Patriot. Stand up straight and
shoot the French, son.
And you there in Oz, stop cringing at the Great White European
Theatre. Get on with something more interesting.
The Globe. Really, not many are interested in it these days, not many
care. As for the Qabbalistic stuff. Meh. For specialists specialising
in belly-button fluff.
Roger
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Mind you, Yates is still pretty essential reading if you're interested
> in this stuff. And it doesn't detract from my main point, which is
> that these ideas still play richly in contemporary theatre.
>
> xA
>
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