…interview went well. So they are calling in references, and putting it to their Board. (I assume they are not going to ask the Board to approve not offering me the job!)
I should hear at the end of next week. (I will be in Ankara Wed-Fri, worse luck.)
I’m sure you can do better than this.
It is based on the assumption that the orthodox chronology is correct.
Now, if the orthodox chronology is correct and Othello was written in 1604, the orthodox chronology needs a weird new genre: “the post-deparodied pre-parody”. The pre-parody is Ben Jonson’s Every Man in His Humour (1598). If the date 1604 is correct. In the figure of Thorello Jonson pre-parodied Othello in 1598 and Shakespeare would have deparodied Jonson’s pre-parody in 1604.
It is the logical conclusion from the orthodox chronology (see Yale edition of Jonson’s play by Gabriele Jackson).
And in Poetaster (1601) Ben Jonson quoted from Timon of Athens – which Shakespeare, according to the orthodox chronology, was to write seven years later.
Could you give an explanation? If not, I would be content with another stale witticism of yours.
Ignoto