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alimuse In reply to SuperJV99 [2009-03-09 15:16:27 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the encouraging comment.

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alimuse In reply to Imagestar [2009-02-06 14:27:54 +0000 UTC]

Wow, thanks so much for the encouraging comment!

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alimuse In reply to erene [2009-01-25 17:41:45 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much, Erene!

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erene In reply to alimuse [2009-01-27 04:25:38 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure

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alimuse In reply to Made08 [2009-01-25 03:17:31 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much!

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alimuse In reply to Althytrion [2009-01-24 20:52:22 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much, Kevin!

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Althytrion In reply to alimuse [2009-01-25 00:22:27 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure, Alicia!

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alimuse In reply to SassyAssLilBich [2009-01-24 20:52:33 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much, Kyrstie!

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SassyAssLilBich In reply to alimuse [2009-01-24 23:28:16 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome hun

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alimuse In reply to inObrAS [2009-01-24 16:28:19 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, Andrey, and thanks for the favorite on this!

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inObrAS In reply to alimuse [2009-01-24 16:38:20 +0000 UTC]

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alimuse In reply to drrocket [2009-01-24 16:28:05 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! This was actually from the classroom pics that I took. Took this on a whim.

Lovely day here today with sun and warmth!

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drrocket In reply to alimuse [2009-01-24 16:30:57 +0000 UTC]

Really? A lovely day out is it? Well then, hie thee hence and ply thy trade, wench!

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alimuse In reply to drrocket [2009-01-24 16:32:03 +0000 UTC]

Ooh. "Trade" and "Wench" in the same sentence indicates a field into which I would rather not venture!

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drrocket In reply to alimuse [2009-01-24 16:45:57 +0000 UTC]

!

Methinks I do partake too much of Shakespeare.

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alimuse In reply to drrocket [2009-01-24 20:52:59 +0000 UTC]

Just don't go all Shylock on us.

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drrocket In reply to alimuse [2009-01-24 21:34:07 +0000 UTC]

Not a problem, I'm not Jewish.

Hah! See, I *do* read Shakespeare.

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alimuse In reply to drrocket [2009-01-25 03:18:06 +0000 UTC]

Just testing. Nah, I knew you did. I actually found myself with a lot of sympathy for Shylock.

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drrocket In reply to alimuse [2009-01-25 04:04:32 +0000 UTC]

He was treated rather badly and for no good reason IMHO. I suppose it made good drama...

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alimuse In reply to drrocket [2009-01-25 17:47:32 +0000 UTC]

Oh, and the atmosphere and attitudes of Elizabethan England would have made him a figure of fun for general society. I'm still not sure, however, if Shakespeare was parodying the stereotype of a Jew or if he was actually humanizing the stereotype and showing a more sympathetic side...

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drrocket In reply to alimuse [2009-01-25 18:36:40 +0000 UTC]

Given the nature of Shakespeare's audience, admission to the Globe cost as little as a ha'enny for the gallery - a sum which even the poorest and least educated could well afford for an evening's entertainment, and his use of euphemism and contemporaneous slang in nearly all of his plays, I would think parody would be the thing. Jews were not held in high regard and I doubt that an attempt to humanize or portray a Jew as a sympathetic character would have gone over well.

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alimuse In reply to drrocket [2009-01-25 21:49:38 +0000 UTC]

True enough. Although Shakespeare was known to make "inside" jokes that only the educated would have understood, I don't believe that he went so far as to defy a prevailing sentiment. One never knows, however...

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drrocket In reply to alimuse [2009-01-25 22:11:34 +0000 UTC]

Also true, which proves that he had some connection with or was a member of the gentry but also that he had, in the vernacular, "street cred".
Nor do I believe that he would have gone against any commonly held belief, it would cut into his take. I say this advisedly since I know of no study having been done to analyze the Globe's books to determine where and to whom the monies were distributed nor even if any books exist to be examined.
I truely wonder if the mystery of who he was will ever be solved.

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