> Are you in fact advocating this as a sensible, meaningful way to approach > Shakespeare. In any way. Under any circumstances. We should pick the work > apart rather than take it in. >
I think you over-romanticize. Scholars use key words to index into works all the time. I don't know if 'rose' was a great example, but I can easily imagine a teacher wanting to look at references to planets, gold, other key words. Who knows exactly why. === Your search term was found in the following: # Timon of Athens - Act I. Scene I cond lord he pours it out; plutus, the god of gold,is but his steward: no meed, but he repay # Timon of Athens - Act II. Scene I waste? it cannot hold; it will not.if i want gold, steal but a beggar's dog,and give it tim # Timon of Athens - Act II. Scene II . poor rogues, andusurers' men! bawds between gold and want!all servants what are we # Timon of Athens - Act IV. Scene II erve his mind with my best will;whilst i have gold, i'll be his steward still.exit # Timon of Athens - Act IV. Scene III d by that below: the learned pateducks to the golden fool: all is oblique;there's nothing le # Timon of Athens - Act V. Scene I the rumour holdfor true, that he's so full of gold?painter certain: alcibiades repor === Sure I'll pick Shakespeare apart any day, with or without regular expressions. I'll even put his Collected Works on an operating table under bright lights, and cut into it with a scalpel, just to hear the romantics bleat. Does that mean I can't appreciate Shakespeare? Do romantics own him? > It says it all, in fact. > > Art > Maybe so, maybe so. Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
