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In a sense, it seems illogical that we have retained the historic spellings for Spenser's works yet use modern spellings for the titles of plays by his contemporary, William Shakespeare.
Except for bits and pieces, no gorgeous suits from Shakespeare's day survive, no gold-bordered gowns from Mona Lisa's wardrobe, none of King Richard III's rich doublets fitted to his humpback.
It was also piously believed that speaking truth would always prevail over evil; language was not only a moral weapon, but in Shakespeare's fecund and often irreverent imagination, occasion for exuberant revelry:
Foster--who also analyzed Primary Colors last year and accurately identified Joe Klein as the author--discovered the elegy in 1984 and, in last October's issue of PMLA , wrote that it "is formed from textual and linguistic fabric indistinguishable from that of canonical Shakespeare."
It's the critics who are in love: Gwyneth Paltrow is gorgeous, Joseph Fiennes is dashing, and the movie is "smart and giddily entertaining" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Fiennes' young Will Shakespeare has an affair with Paltrow's character that becomes the basis for Romeo and Juliet . Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman's screenplay is full of amusing references to Shakespeare plays, but is not so erudite that it won't please crowds, and the dialogue "percolates with bubbly finesse" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The New Yorker 's David Denby puts a slight damper on the general festivities: He says the film starts out muddled, though it livens up by the end.
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