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How to Study Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis and I Want to Do Television and I'm Going to Talk and I Want to Do Television

"I wanted to arrest a little bit of that sliding like all these pieces all over the place and I thought you know if I'm gonna be here and I want to talk," he says. "It's not literally true that nobody does it but like it's basically true then." He talks about starting with formalists, new critics and practical criticism as it's called in England. 'You got to earn the right to say the thing you got' - Stephen Greenblatt.

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