Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Not getting it …

… Ira Glass Says Shakespeare Sucks. He's Wrong. | New Republic. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

 The horror of life that Lear communicates is something deeper and more constant than the particular actions of its dramatis personae. The same is true of Oedipus’s self-blinding, or for that matter Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac: We can only appreciate these stories if we imagine our way into them, rather than demanding that they come obediently to us. 

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