On this four hundredth anniversary of the First Folio, ponder that two of the plays are quite forgotten, since people kept thinking that The Comedy of Oliver Kamm was a tragedy, and people kept thinking that The Tragedy of Oliver Kamm was a comedy.
We have been spared Boris Johnson's book on Shakespeare. It would have been as bad as his book on Churchill, which would simply have failed to have found a publisher if it had been by anyone else. But it would not have been given to his mates to review. As much as anything else, he no longer has any, and there is certainly no longer anyone who would feel the need to pretend to be one.
Neither of them will be writing for the Lindsay News then?
ReplyDeleteThe assurance of that will make for quite the advertising campaign.
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