On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:21:54 GMT, (Sam Sloan)
wrote:

On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 09:27:26 +0200, Jürgen R. wrote:

On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 00:01:30 GMT, (Sam Sloan)
wrote:

On 31 Aug 2005 06:22:52 -0700, "Liam Too"
wrote:

You really did not know that I am a Shakespearian scholar? Take a look
at:

http://www.samsloan.com/shakespe.htm

LOL. Scholar, eh?

I only read the first sentence of your scholarly contribution:

"On one point everybody agrees: The works of William Shakespeare are
the greatest works ever written in the history of the English
language."

and that is already quite wrong. For an interesting opinion on S.'s
qualities read Tolstoi's essay. You will never again be able to watch
Lear without laughing.

I see. A German tells us that a Russian translator was a better writer
of English than Shakespeare ever was.

That immediately shows that you, the Shakespeare scholar, have never
read Tolstoy's essay, which I assume has been translated into one of
the 27 languages that you claim to speak.

Tolstoy begins by explaining in which languages he had read
Shakespeare. The original is one of them, the Schlegel/Tieck
translation another.

An amusing test for an admirer of Shakespea Choose any one of the
"Great Speeches", for which everybody knows the first line, and
summarize the content beyond the second line. Not one of these
speeches contains anything but drivel.