for the last bloody time, Queen Mab is not a tablet of E!

[tempestsarekind]

That's it, Ron Rosenbaum. The Shakespeare Wars and I are through. Seriously.

I sat through the needless slams on academia, your weird obsession with Peter Brook, your ridiculous idea that people use theory to protect them from the unbearable instability at the heart of close-reading (um, because, what?), your self-aggrandizing throughout the book

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[angevin2]

Does this mean I'm a Bad Person because I, erm, actually sorta liked that movie?

Erm, the rest of the book sounds silly though. Especially the bit about theory and close reading. I have to admit to a certain suspicion, though, about people who are anti-theory because it reminds me of a prof I had whom I really dislike.

[tempestsarekind]

Hee. No, it really just means that Leonardo DiCaprio's inability to recite verse properly drives me up a wall, and that my best friend and I used to get in arguments about the movie. And that I'm really irritated by this book I'm reading. The notes of his interviews would be so much more interesting.

I'm somewhat anti-theory, but I suspect this is mainly because I don't Get It. If I actually understood what I was reading, it would be a whole different ball game. Someday, perhaps...