[Ansteorra] Bardic PSA- RECALL NOTICE
Biatrichi Di Palermo
biatrichidipalermo at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 12:33:22 PDT 2011
Though the Black Star is looking for a movie review on this. Come on...the snark value should be irresistible.
Biatrichi
:-)
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On Oct 17, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Casey Weed <seoseaweed at gmail.com> wrote:
> Warning: A performance piece is being released on the 28th of this month
> specifically targeting reenactors, arm chair historians, and Elizabethan
> clothing enthusiasts that is toxic and represents a serious choking hazard
> to all viewers with any sense of historical integrity or academic/artistic
> interest in William Shakespeare.
>
> Due to a huge monetary push by the Black Helicopter and Tin Foil Hat
> Conspiracy Crowd, the release of the film, "Anonymous", will happen as
> planned. Apparently, the costumes will be enough to satisfy the higher
> court requirements for integrity despite the fiction-as-fact representation
> of the Care Bears vs. Transformers plot.
>
> If you discover that you are watching "Anonymous", do not panic. The
> following RECALL notes should prevent you from becoming a laughing stock to
> the historically literate:
>
> 1. RECALL that the Earl of Oxford died in 1604 and that many of the plays
> were written *later* than 1604
> 2. RECALL that the actual solid written evidence we have- court records,
> handwriting, broadsheets- say that the author of William Shakespeare's
> plays... was William Shakespeare, the glovemaker's son.
> 3. RECALL that Ben Jonson- Shakespeare's competitor and friend- believed
> Will wrote everything in the First Folio and says as much in the
> Eulogy/Dedication.
>
> Ansteorra sits on the edge of a Braveheart level epidemic of misinformation.
> Do your part to protect us.
>
> For more:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/opinion/hollywood-dishonors-the-bard.html?_r=1&src=tp&smid=fb-share
>
>
>
>
> [A serious note- and truly the reason this subject gets me riled enough to
> post a PSA to the Ansteorra list- is this: the entire argument that "He
> couldn't have written it" is classist claptrap from inception. Genius can
> and does come from the common man- a German patent clerk who failed a
> college entrance exam... the half deaf son of Canadian expatriates who was
> kicked out of school... the bastard son of a poor Italian peasant girl.
> Einstein, Edison, Da Vinci. If they can be great, any of us can be great-
> never tolerate the lie that succeeding requires breeding.]
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