Shakespeare, in general
so i went into highschool thinking english was a used for clarity and to express ideas from point A to point B
then i came out of highschool realizing that language was a texture and had as many bumps and holes as anythign else out there– just another thing to be manipulated .
shakespereare was just the master manipulator in some ways - and i dindt like it because i didnt realize
so much of plot and device and shape of english comes from him
and then i went into college not enjoying the picking apart and the.. general… obvious-ness? of shakespeare (Tho i did like that his plays were very fast. none of this tension building and on and on climax climbing.
foreshadowing in 2 lines yes, 500 page monologues? no)
then i am in shakespeare classand… yknow? things like… “virtue is a fig!” and “who cannot be crushed by a plot” and “simply the thing i am shall make me live” (othello/alls well that ends well, respectively) make me that shakespeare felt highs and lows in acute manner… in 1600.
so reading hamlet again was good; though in all of shakespeare, it seems as if there is a theme of doubleness/straightforwardness. what DOESN’T have to do with appearance and dissembling the interior??
or maybe its my prof who loves to dwell on such things
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