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Monday, July 01, 2013

“Stay, Illusion!”: “Hamlet” rebooted

Salon.com: Theories about Shakespeare are numberless, ranging from the idealistic to the admittedly speculative to the daft. What is it about this multifarious artist — celebrated by Keats as “capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason” — that makes his admirers want to nail him to the wall, reducing his genius to some primary cause or motivation or identity?

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