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MIR. Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
William Shakespeare • The Tempest (Dover Thrift Editions: Plays)
Rather than offering direct lessons about the modern world, literature is an indirect guide to life. There is no simple way in which we can interpret modern politics with Shakespeare, but we will find again and again that he had named so much of what we see today, and that those names are useful companions in the struggle of thought.
Henry Oliver • Notes Towards an Applied Literature
“Most of my own stuff I’ve been delivering to the wastebasket,” he wrote
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul Lends the tongue vows.
William Shakespeare, The Modern Shakespeare (editor) • Hamlet
‘Ancient Tragedy is loss of life, modern Tragedy is loss of
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Shakespeare, Cervantès, Molière et Milton, sans parler de Bacon et Descartes,