<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post111712832137494511..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>18</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111786598575970562</id><published>2005-06-04T02:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-04T02:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Agree with Empson and JOT about the writing of som...</title><summary type='text'>Agree with Empson and JOT about the writing of some of the plays - this gifted writer, whoever he was, wrote fast to entertain the masses, made money, left us tantalising evidence that he existed, and would be surprised that anyone makes a living picking his work to tiny pieces 400 years later. The only creative person I can think of who suffers similar &#39;misappropriation&#39; by his biographers would</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111786598575970562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111786598575970562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html?showComment=1117865940000#c111786598575970562' title=''/><author><name>genevieve</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15961583023870613662</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111712832137494511' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111712832137494511' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-961116282"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 04, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111767203220834241</id><published>2005-06-01T20:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-01T20:27:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This might be something of a sidetrack. Although I...</title><summary type='text'>This might be something of a sidetrack. Although I&#39;ve read some of Shakespeare, and (many years ago in a quick read-through) Olson&#39;s Call Me Ishmael, I don&#39;t read a heavy amount of literary criticism, so this is maybe a question from a naive corner.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In reading your post, certain words catch my ear: touch-point, reconstruction, function, metholodogy, hypothesized, strategy, strategies, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111767203220834241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111767203220834241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html?showComment=1117672020000#c111767203220834241' title=''/><author><name>Lyle Daggett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10731915540520704368</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111712832137494511' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111712832137494511' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1880267297"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 01, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111757404360751176</id><published>2005-05-31T17:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-31T17:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh thanks so much!  I get so few visitors, but eve...</title><summary type='text'>Oh thanks so much!  I get so few visitors, but every one has to be a genius to have found their way to such an obscure site.  I thought too that the SG you mentioned was an article rather than yet another book.  Gosh this guy SG is really prolific.  He seems to be writing faster than I read.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111757404360751176'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111757404360751176'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html?showComment=1117574040000#c111757404360751176' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111712832137494511' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111712832137494511' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 31, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111757369904260399</id><published>2005-05-31T17:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-31T17:08:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby, &#39;H in P&#39; is a Princeton University Press bo...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby, &#39;H in P&#39; is a Princeton University Press book, 2001.  I kind of assume they&#39;ll have paperbacked it tho Ann&#39;s copy is hb (nice rendering of a detail from Hieronymus Bosch as a cover by the way--also, only just noticing this, &#39;author portrait&#39; is lovely: short-sleeved open-shirted SG in front of a town sign in Italy, PURGATORIO -- Fraz. di Custonaci [dunno what that means!]  In this </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111757369904260399'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111757369904260399'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html?showComment=1117573680000#c111757369904260399' title=''/><author><name>JOT</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09756398976763474877</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111712832137494511' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111712832137494511' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1767866104"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 31, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111756985782329991</id><published>2005-05-31T16:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-31T16:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>In Aristotle he is already talking about character...</title><summary type='text'>In Aristotle he is already talking about characters and motivations in the Poetics.  This is ca. 350 BC.  Character is considered second only to plot in terms of what&#39;s most necessary in a play.  It comes before theme.  The three together are intertwined and come to a peak at the moment of revelation when the action forces a character to see himself for what he is -- ever so momentarily.  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111756985782329991'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111756985782329991'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html?showComment=1117569840000#c111756985782329991' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111712832137494511' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111712832137494511' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 31, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111755735169249335</id><published>2005-05-31T12:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-31T12:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Fascinating post on opacity in Shakespeare. I&#39;m go...</title><summary type='text'>Fascinating post on opacity in Shakespeare. I&#39;m going to have to have to purchase me a copy of Greenblatt&#39;s book. Thanks for writing about this.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111755735169249335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111755735169249335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html?showComment=1117557300000#c111755735169249335' title=''/><author><name>Michael Parker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01280355936107965244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111712832137494511' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111712832137494511' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2002640408"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 31, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111755648175875617</id><published>2005-05-31T12:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-31T12:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I am a School Of Quietude man myself.I am a School...</title><summary type='text'>I am a School Of Quietude man myself.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I am a School Of Quietude man&lt;BR/&gt;I am a School Of Quietude man&lt;BR/&gt;What the men don’t know.&lt;BR/&gt;All the women understand.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;So, while I don’t believe that Shax might have encountered a porcupine I am sure he would have encountered Toad and Mole and that it is important to write a poem about this. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And, I too, am a Made Man – having </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111755648175875617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111755648175875617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html?showComment=1117556460000#c111755648175875617' title=''/><author><name>Lon Silliman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05557544995428892686</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111712832137494511' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111712832137494511' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 31, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111755075537272903</id><published>2005-05-31T10:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-31T10:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Where is this &quot;Hamlet in Purgatory&quot;?  I could look...</title><summary type='text'>Where is this &quot;Hamlet in Purgatory&quot;?  I could look it up on the MLA but my tiny school can&#39;t afford as I would be one of only two or three who might use it and it costs 1500 dollars a year or something.  Does it appear in Shakespeare Quarterly or something?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I did read the 9 pages the Amazon.com book Search Inside function allowed me to read last evening and it was a pretty riveting </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111755075537272903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111755075537272903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html?showComment=1117550700000#c111755075537272903' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111712832137494511' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111712832137494511' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 31, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111754003999549664</id><published>2005-05-31T07:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-31T07:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Greenblatt is a serious man, and while he &#39;didn&#39;t ...</title><summary type='text'>Greenblatt is a serious man, and while he &#39;didn&#39;t get where he is today&#39; as a shrinking violet, he is no mere self-promoter.  I think it&#39;s great that his Shakespeare biog is out there and will have a wide readership.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I should come clean and identify myself on Shakespeare matters as &#39;married to the Mob&#39;, since my wife Ann Thompson is one of the general eds of the Arden 3 edition and is </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111754003999549664'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111754003999549664'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html?showComment=1117540020000#c111754003999549664' title=''/><author><name>JOT</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09756398976763474877</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111712832137494511' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111712832137494511' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1767866104"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 31, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111753988251242182</id><published>2005-05-31T07:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-31T07:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Re Matt Merlino: - Middleton&#39;s additions (if they ...</title><summary type='text'>Re Matt Merlino: - Middleton&#39;s additions (if they really are his - the chances are good) are his own songs and some of the chants in Act IV. The crucial (i.e. plot-related) parts of the witches&#39; scenes are all Shakespeare. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Kirby: You&#39;re right on Act 1 Scene 1, but there IS an indeterminacy in Lear and it&#39;s just where we would expect to find it, in other words when the lead character&#39;s </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111753988251242182'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111753988251242182'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html?showComment=1117539840000#c111753988251242182' title=''/><author><name>Michael Peverett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17090710369630916194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111712832137494511' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111712832137494511' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-566691718"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 31, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111749909959220766</id><published>2005-05-30T20:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-30T20:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, in the twenties (but oh we have forgotten) t...</title><summary type='text'>Well, in the twenties (but oh we have forgotten) the case was made again and again that the Bard was not concerned with our idea of character -- and little concerned with &quot;psychological realism.&quot;  So -- this is everything old is new again but not quite.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A character (guess who) can be at once a rough and ready and inarticulate soldier and then, when the time is right, give one of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111749909959220766'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111749909959220766'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html?showComment=1117499040000#c111749909959220766' title=''/><author><name>Lon Silliman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05557544995428892686</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111712832137494511' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111712832137494511' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 30, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111748705926323496</id><published>2005-05-30T17:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-30T17:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think Ron&#39;s treating Greenblatt&#39;s Shakespeare in...</title><summary type='text'>I think Ron&#39;s treating Greenblatt&#39;s Shakespeare in the spirit in which it was written: as the fictional construction of a series of &quot;strong critics&quot; (in the Bloom sense of the term).  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The limitations of Greenblatt&#39;s method are quite clear.  Just as the auteur approach to film doesn&#39;t fully work given the sheer number of hands in the stewpot, so too are we led astray if we try to account</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111748705926323496'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111748705926323496'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html?showComment=1117487040000#c111748705926323496' title=''/><author><name>Matt Merlino</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15356783127504854049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111712832137494511' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111712832137494511' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1135783178"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 30, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111748564369974235</id><published>2005-05-30T16:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-30T16:40:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The problem is that I totally understand the chara...</title><summary type='text'>The problem is that I totally understand the characters&#39; motivations.  I don&#39;t think there is any mystery in Hamlet or in Lear.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;None.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I can understand somebody not understanding the motivations, or even in not understanding Ahab -- but to me their motivations are as clear as motivations can be.  Ahab is obsessed with revenge.  It doesn&#39;t matter what set him off, what little </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111748564369974235'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111748564369974235'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html?showComment=1117485600000#c111748564369974235' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111712832137494511' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111712832137494511' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 30, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111748393520827953</id><published>2005-05-30T16:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-30T16:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;The aversion to indeterminacy [is] one of the nee...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;The aversion to indeterminacy [is] one of the needs met by just this text so that as Greenblatt gestures to opacity his entire work is dedicated to removing just that.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Just a conceptual note...   Having not read Greenblatt&#39;s book I can&#39;t comment on its merits or motivations.   But there seems to be some flirting in the background in this comment with an unnecessary conflation of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111748393520827953'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111748393520827953'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html?showComment=1117483920000#c111748393520827953' title=''/><author><name>brian carpenter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14412015112571580369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111712832137494511' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111712832137494511' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2031840162"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 30, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111748312566364421</id><published>2005-05-30T15:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-30T15:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I haven&#39;t read but saw him on TV making a similar ...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;I&gt; I haven&#39;t read but saw him on TV making a similar case for an hour with perhaps Billy Moyers. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;/I&gt; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You might read the book. He gives a pretty detailed argument for why these characters&#39; motivations aren&#39;t clear-- it&#39;s related to how Shakespeare leaves out plot elements of the original storylines. His most convincing argument, from my point of view, was in his Lear section. I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111748312566364421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111748312566364421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html?showComment=1117483080000#c111748312566364421' title=''/><author><name>L. Trent</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12175950201511243122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111712832137494511' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111712832137494511' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1878720032"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 30, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111747720892790959</id><published>2005-05-30T14:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-30T14:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This theme is one my favorites in your blog -- the...</title><summary type='text'>This theme is one my favorites in your blog -- the link between Shakespeare, Melville, and Olson -- with Billy Collins as foil.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Greenblatt&#39;s bizarre case for opacity -- I haven&#39;t read but saw him on TV making a similar case for an hour with perhaps Billy Moyers.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But what&#39;s so opaque about Lear&#39;s motivations?  It seems clear as a bell.  Lear offers to give his three daughters </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111747720892790959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111747720892790959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html?showComment=1117477200000#c111747720892790959' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111712832137494511' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111712832137494511' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 30, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111746263378617133</id><published>2005-05-30T10:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-30T10:17:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Greenblatt has managed to write an HBO mini-series...</title><summary type='text'>Greenblatt has managed to write an HBO mini-series.  That&#39;s about it.  No wonder it has appeal.  Slakes this and that need.  Provides imaginary CONTEXT.  And a great excuse to avoid doing the hard work.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The aversion to ideterminacy one of the needs met by just this text so that as Greenblatt gestures to opacity his entire work is dedicated to removing just that.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Think one step </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111746263378617133'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111746263378617133'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html?showComment=1117462620000#c111746263378617133' title=''/><author><name>Lon Silliman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05557544995428892686</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111712832137494511' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111712832137494511' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 30, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111746142730867706</id><published>2005-05-30T09:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-30T09:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The opacity aspect was my favorite part of Greenbl...</title><summary type='text'>The opacity aspect was my favorite part of Greenblatt&#39;s book. It immediately made me think of an essay I read by Tom Gunn (can&#39;t remember the name) about Thomas Hardy&#39;s ballads. The essay (if I remember correctly) claims that Hardy&#39;s poems have the ballad aspect of mystery, of some missing plot piece or character motivation, that ultimately makes the action of the poem haunting &amp; inexplicable. I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111746142730867706'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111712832137494511/comments/default/111746142730867706'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html?showComment=1117461420000#c111746142730867706' title=''/><author><name>L. Trent</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12175950201511243122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/signature-on-shakespeares-will-his.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111712832137494511' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111712832137494511' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1878720032"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 30, 2005"/></entry></feed>