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[Lear] is the universal image of the unwisdom and destructiveness of paternal love at its most ineffectual, implacably persuaded of its own benignity,...more

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A play that takes as its burden the meaning of self-consciousness may hint that inner freedom can be attained only when the protagonist can separate h...more

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There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in whic...more

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There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare.

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No one has yet managed to be post-Shakespearean.

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Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own...more