Quoting Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net:
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:20:46 -0800 (PST), Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
Probably someone who thinks that there are people who don't know the details of that Shakespeare play and might be reading or seeing it for the first time in the future.
...and doesn't understand that scholarly treatments of Shakespeare don't include spoiler warnings.
That claims relevancy isn't immediately obvious to me. Scholarly works aren't designed for general audiences and are (almost by definition) aimed at people already familiar with the work in question. The more serious objection to this sort of thing seems at least to me that most Shakespeare was material where the general audience would have already known the basic plot. So if anything the author wanted the spoilers spoiled.