But I wanted to make a claim the claim here is that life is actually compelling and that Shakespeare's life is what he principally had to work with.
But I wanted to make a claim the claim here is that life is actually compelling and that Shakespeare's life is what he principally had to work with.
I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his life, even though I've just written a biography!
Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.
What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off.
But if it doesn't have pleasure and interest, then it does not have life. And the same must be true about writing about literature.
It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.
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