The Place of Ethics Within Shakespeare's Thought

Shakespeare presents what I would call a dialectic of faith and doubt. He asks himself, what if the opposite of what I believe were true? And he doesn't just ask that, but he builds it up. That's why football staff or Cleopatra is so compelling. It makes many people today very uncomfortable. Because maybe she just reminded people that in the last speech she basically promises to be a good obedient wife. Yeah, exactly. There's a great temptation for theatre producers or directors or so on to make it sarcastic or weaker or undo the discomfort. But I think that's a disservice to Shakespeare and I think it's adisservice to ourselves.