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...more streamlined age. Do not ask why you would want to engage in such a bootless enterprise; just assume it was your task. Well, first you would change the thees, the thous, the thys and the thines. Instead of "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?"-one of the Bard's most famous questions-you would have Juliet ask, "Wherefore art you Romeo?" The archaic verb must go as well, of course, and what you wind up with is an up-to-date "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore are you Romeo...
...distinguished if eccentric Oxford historian whose more than 40 books do include several about the Bard, Rowse, 80, began a tour of the U.S. last week to plug his The Contemporary Shakespeare. Six of the plays, including Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, have just been published (University Press of America; paperback, $2.95 each), and the remaining 31 will appear in installments over the next three years. People are losing interest in Shakespeare because the language has become too remote, Rowse contends, and all he has done is remove the "negative superfluous difficulties." Says he: "I want to keep William Shakespeare...
...cutteth the spear . . ."). The other, The Muse, tells of a scholar from an alternative universe who time-travels to Elizabethan England to verify Shakespeare's authorship of the plays. The scholar meets a bad end, but his copies of the plays fall into the hands of the Bard, who blithely plagiarizes them...
...commented on the loneliness of the early and mid-seventies even as he encouraged libidinal freedom with songs like "Let's Get it On" and "I Want You." It was this unique mixture of incisive comment on both personal desires and social ills that made Gaye a kind of bard for the seventies...
...Dublin paper once decided that he was the "bard of the bogs." Robert Lowell took the high road, designating him the greatest Irish poet since Yeats. Seamus Heaney (pronounced Hay-knee) finds very little comfort in either encomium. "The first annoys me," he grumbles. "The second makes me uncomfortable...