Comments on: Chettle’s Testimony Regarding Shakespeare http://poeticks.com Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:34:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bob Grumman http://poeticks.com/chettle%e2%80%99s-testimony-regarding-shakespeare/comment-page-1/#comment-1107 Bob Grumman Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:14:24 +0000 http://poeticks.com/?page_id=549#comment-1107 Daryl, sorry I took so long to approve your comment and reply to it. All I can say is that I've been very disorganized, as usual. As for Erne's article, I've read it. I can't remember whether I said anything in my essay in particular against what he said. If not, it was because I thought my argument more than enough to defeat his. Erne seems to me just another scholar who knows that to make a splash in Shakespeare scholarship, you have to deconstruct something or other. --Bob Daryl, sorry I took so long to approve your comment and reply to it. All I can say is that I’ve been very disorganized, as usual. As for Erne’s article, I’ve read it. I can’t remember whether I said anything in my essay in particular against what he said. If not, it was because I thought my argument more than enough to defeat his. Erne seems to me just another scholar who knows that to make a splash in Shakespeare scholarship, you have to deconstruct something or other.

–Bob

]]> By: Daryl Pinksen http://poeticks.com/chettle%e2%80%99s-testimony-regarding-shakespeare/comment-page-1/#comment-1086 Daryl Pinksen Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:01:52 +0000 http://poeticks.com/?page_id=549#comment-1086 Bob, I assume this essay was written as a direct counter-point to Lukas Erne's 1998 article arguing that George Peele was the second playwright Chettle claims had been insulted by Greene's "letter written to divers play-makers." Erne does make a very strong argument against Shakespeare (and for Peele) in Chettle's apology, an apparently dangerous argument if accepted, since Chettle's Apology is taken to "help[s] confirm the Groatsworth’s identifying [the Crow] as the particular playwright, William Shakespeare." If that peg is allowed to be knocked over, then the Shakespeare interpretation of Groatsworth has some of the wind knocked out of its sails (though Erne does not seem to care). Therefore, it must be defended vigourously. Erne's essay [Erne, Lukas (1998) 'Biography and mythography: Rereading Chettle's alleged apology to Shakespeare', English Studies, 79: 5, 430 — 440.] needs to be more widely read and discussed. Regards, Daryl Pinksen Bob,

I assume this essay was written as a direct counter-point to Lukas Erne’s 1998 article arguing that George Peele was the second playwright Chettle claims had been insulted by Greene’s “letter written to divers play-makers.”

Erne does make a very strong argument against Shakespeare (and for Peele) in Chettle’s apology, an apparently dangerous argument if accepted, since Chettle’s Apology is taken to “help[s] confirm the Groatsworth’s identifying [the Crow] as the particular playwright, William Shakespeare.”

If that peg is allowed to be knocked over, then the Shakespeare interpretation of Groatsworth has some of the wind knocked out of its sails (though Erne does not seem to care). Therefore, it must be defended vigourously.

Erne’s essay [Erne, Lukas (1998) 'Biography and mythography: Rereading Chettle's alleged apology to Shakespeare', English Studies, 79: 5, 430 — 440.] needs to be more widely read and discussed.

Regards,

Daryl Pinksen

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