<?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.post112273080825388691..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/3738579/112273080825388691/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/shakespeare-festival-at-our-house.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>10</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112306481145975732</id><published>2005-08-03T06:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-03T06:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Pacino is great in film, but he just isn&#39;t the typ...</title><summary type='text'>Pacino is great in film, but he just isn&#39;t the type of actor to go Shakespeare, in my opinion.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112273080825388691/comments/default/112306481145975732'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112273080825388691/comments/default/112306481145975732'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/shakespeare-festival-at-our-house.html?showComment=1123064760000#c112306481145975732' title=''/><author><name>Pris</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03970753027686923295</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/2005/08/shakespeare-festival-at-our-house.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112273080825388691' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112273080825388691' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2102071197"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112300018209585626</id><published>2005-08-02T12:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-02T12:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yep.  Of speculation no end.  One of the strangest...</title><summary type='text'>Yep.  Of speculation no end.  One of the strangest books I have read on the Bard was &quot;Shakespeare No Deer Slayer&quot; probably available only at your great university libraries.  Published in 1880 or so and 140 pages devoted to proofs that the slander that Shakespeare poached deer was, well, a terrible slander.  Never!  How could it even be thought?!!!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;We do know, however, that after </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112273080825388691/comments/default/112300018209585626'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112273080825388691/comments/default/112300018209585626'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/shakespeare-festival-at-our-house.html?showComment=1123000140000#c112300018209585626' 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/2005/08/shakespeare-festival-at-our-house.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112273080825388691' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112273080825388691' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112293898392864027</id><published>2005-08-01T19:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-01T19:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Shakespeare&#39;s old man wuz a glover.Don&#39;t now nuffi...</title><summary type='text'>Shakespeare&#39;s old man wuz a glover.&lt;BR/&gt;Don&#39;t now nuffink bout the muvver.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112273080825388691/comments/default/112293898392864027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112273080825388691/comments/default/112293898392864027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/shakespeare-festival-at-our-house.html?showComment=1122938940000#c112293898392864027' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11217856911720898729</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/2005/08/shakespeare-festival-at-our-house.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112273080825388691' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112273080825388691' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-876787782"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 01, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112293095091531424</id><published>2005-08-01T17:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-01T17:15:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The only things worth doing are the impossible one...</title><summary type='text'>The only things worth doing are the impossible ones.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Anybody can wrap Shakespeare in yesterday&#39;s newspaper.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But if you take deliberate liberties with the plays -- kicking out walls and changing characters in order to accomodate Dworkin&#39;s lies about men, then I reserve the right to puke.  I do think that most people in this day and age have a stronger stomach than I have.  You </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112273080825388691/comments/default/112293095091531424'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112273080825388691/comments/default/112293095091531424'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/shakespeare-festival-at-our-house.html?showComment=1122930900000#c112293095091531424' 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/2005/08/shakespeare-festival-at-our-house.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112273080825388691' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112273080825388691' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 01, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112293074215468268</id><published>2005-08-01T17:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-01T17:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Isn&#39;t Shakespeare&#39;s mother where all of the radica...</title><summary type='text'>Isn&#39;t Shakespeare&#39;s mother where all of the radical (and, in his day, punishable by death) Catholicism in his background was? Greenblatt speculates that this is partly where his empathy for other despised figures (Caliban, for example) comes from.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112273080825388691/comments/default/112293074215468268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112273080825388691/comments/default/112293074215468268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/shakespeare-festival-at-our-house.html?showComment=1122930720000#c112293074215468268' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</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/2005/08/shakespeare-festival-at-our-house.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112273080825388691' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112273080825388691' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 01, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112292890358868172</id><published>2005-08-01T16:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-01T16:41:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Who else is always forgotten in these conversation...</title><summary type='text'>Who else is always forgotten in these conversations but Shakespeare&#39;s Mom. Am I the only fellow to verse her?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Shakespeare was something... but Shakespeare&#39;s mum&lt;BR/&gt;Struck all the poxy critics dumb!&lt;BR/&gt;Till one found voice and then another&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;The Bard owed everything to his mother!&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Or so she dreamed. Then woke to life&lt;BR/&gt;Stuck up in Stratford with Shakespeare&#39;s wife.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112273080825388691/comments/default/112292890358868172'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112273080825388691/comments/default/112292890358868172'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/shakespeare-festival-at-our-house.html?showComment=1122928860000#c112292890358868172' 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/2005/08/shakespeare-festival-at-our-house.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112273080825388691' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112273080825388691' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 01, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112292291002244285</id><published>2005-08-01T15:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-01T15:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>A desire for truthful perversionsridding bards of ...</title><summary type='text'>A desire for truthful perversions&lt;BR/&gt;ridding bards of their 3.0 versions&lt;BR/&gt;demands the belief&lt;BR/&gt;in anachronous briefs&lt;BR/&gt;that smell worse than a casket of sturgeons. &lt;BR/&gt;-Luca Brasi</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112273080825388691/comments/default/112292291002244285'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112273080825388691/comments/default/112292291002244285'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/shakespeare-festival-at-our-house.html?showComment=1122922860000#c112292291002244285' title=''/><author><name>Carton Tragedy</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06542989177956491967</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/2005/08/shakespeare-festival-at-our-house.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112273080825388691' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112273080825388691' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1629265714"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 01, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112291788129653610</id><published>2005-08-01T13:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-01T13:38:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;But you have the ability to fall back and remain ...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;But you have the ability to fall back and remain critical and distanced when most of us would run to the toilet. I think this is a virtue.&quot; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Most of us? Contrary to what you might think, the puke-and-die bug is not contagious. Please speak for yourself Kirby; I think THAT would be a virtue.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112273080825388691/comments/default/112291788129653610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112273080825388691/comments/default/112291788129653610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/shakespeare-festival-at-our-house.html?showComment=1122917880000#c112291788129653610' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11217856911720898729</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/2005/08/shakespeare-festival-at-our-house.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112273080825388691' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112273080825388691' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-876787782"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 01, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112291667070706311</id><published>2005-08-01T13:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-01T13:17:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ah, Kirby you are displaying the typical reaction ...</title><summary type='text'>Ah, Kirby you are displaying the typical reaction of a person who is not a scholar of the plays and, just incidentally, is still enraged that, in the seventies, hippies had a lot more sex than you did.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;First of all it is next to impossible to recover the plays as they were first presented and then, of course, you know that the texts themselves are compromised – in the sense that they </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112273080825388691/comments/default/112291667070706311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112273080825388691/comments/default/112291667070706311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/shakespeare-festival-at-our-house.html?showComment=1122916620000#c112291667070706311' 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/2005/08/shakespeare-festival-at-our-house.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112273080825388691' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112273080825388691' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 01, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112290765227634357</id><published>2005-08-01T10:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-01T10:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>People have so many bad ideas with what to do abou...</title><summary type='text'>People have so many bad ideas with what to do about Shakespeare that I mostly can&#39;t watch.  I prefer to read the text and read the older criticism such Frye and backwards from there.  Almost no one thinks of just presenting the story in a straightforward fashion but everyone wants to interpret it to death, and drag it through the latest theories.  I saw a version of Measure for Measure in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112273080825388691/comments/default/112290765227634357'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112273080825388691/comments/default/112290765227634357'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/shakespeare-festival-at-our-house.html?showComment=1122907620000#c112290765227634357' 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/2005/08/shakespeare-festival-at-our-house.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112273080825388691' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112273080825388691' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 01, 2005"/></entry></feed>