[Lexicog] When Words Lose Meaning

[Martin Hosken]

Dear Scott,

>This is why students basically 
> dislike Shakespeare, and why modernized versions are an inevitable 
> and natural progression in its study. Interesting to see how even 

> Troilus and Cressida 5.02.128-131(1)
>      Think we had mothers; do not give advantage
>      To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme,
>      for depravation, to square the general sex
>      By Cressid's rule.  (Signet)
> 
> Modernized version: 
> 
>      Consider that we had mothers; do not give advantage
>      To harsh fault-finders, willing, without any undertaking,
>      for defamation, to estimate the general sex
>      By Cressid's rule.  	

Nope. It's still boring. In fact the original is the more interesting, at least to me. Perhaps it's that I, like so many others, do not like poetry. But we aren't supposed to say that kind of thing!

Yours a British philistine :)


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