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...real persona in the play. It sort of evolved from that point on. On the commuter train to Middleboro, I realized I could frame the whole story around the first person who historically recorded Hamlet’s story, a man by the name of Saxo the Grammarian. It was basically the same story, but with no depth, and the way the story ends is different. But Saxo’s story is remarkably the same in the way Horatio describes it, “Carnal, bloody and unnatural acts. Casual slaughters, accidental judgments.” I was reading...
...advisors, than anyone else. The play begins with Horatio wanting not only to tell Hamlet’s tale, but also to confess his own sins. It is here that Funke has incorporated a historical element in to the plot; Horatio tells his story to Saxo the Grammarian, the first writer to enter the real “Amleth” into the historical record through his book of Danish history...
Famous as a strict grammarian and a proponent of clarity in academic writing, Knowles is known for his attention to detail in Faculty matters and being second only to Fox in his ability to manuever through the parliamentary procedure of Faculty meetings...
Safire has reason to be pleased with his gift of glib: his Sunday "On Language" column in the Times magazine has made him the nation's amateur arbiter of usage, or as he puts it, "pop grammarian." He wears the crown lightly, for it is not accidental that one of his six language books is titled I Stand Corrected. As comfortable with punnery as with punditry, Safire is rarely the punctilious schoolmaster in private conversation. True, when a visitor used propinquity to describe two men working in the same law firm, Safire interjected, "Don't you mean proximity?" He insisted...
...hearings, for example, he lectured his "fellow contra supporters" on the necessity of prosecuting members of the White House staff who broke the law. Away from politics, Safire writes essays in the Sunday New York Times Magazine on language, its uses and abuses, and has become a formidable pop grammarian...