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.
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Not getting it …
… Ira Glass Says Shakespeare Sucks. He's Wrong. | New Republic. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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