[OFB Cafe] Tuesday, Boris the Mayor, and Thomas the Rhymer

[Derek Broughton]

On August 20, 2008 22:31:32 Timothy Butler wrote:
>
> 	I do think Marlowe might have rivaled Shakespeare had he not faced "a
> great reckoning in a little room." But, alas...

I thought he _was_ Shakespeare :-)  All I actually know of Marlowe is "Dr. 
Faustus".
>
> 	It's interesting that you mention that "nobody wants to mention him."
> I was thinking the same thing the other day. People do seem to have a
> sense that there is something wrong with siding with Shakespeare,
> don't they?

His greatest hurdle is that pretty well anybody in a school in an 
English-speaking country has to be introduced to him by a system that seems 
to want to prevent anybody enjoying their education.
-- 
derek