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Salon's culture gurus tip you off to their favorite things this week: A bawdy British sketch show, a book on the Bard's better half, the return of the Breeders.
[2008-04-12]

  • *eyeroll*

    Considering that we know next to nothing about Shakespeare and his family, any book purporting to explain their relationship is just blowing hot air. Whole careers have been made out of taking one known fact and embroidering it into volumes. I really wish people would stop obsessing on who the man was. We're never going to know that - the documentation simply DOES NOT EXIST. Why are we such suckers for the Cult of Personality? Why can't we just enjoy what the man wrote and let it go at that?

    -- Serai1
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    Saturday, April 12, 2008 08:57 PM
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