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299 The Cherry Orchard

The History of Literature

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Is There a Future for Hamlet?

I think he probably has some of the best lines and the best scene changing lines. I feel like whenever he's on, he's in a scene, he kind of takes over it. We've got at least 200 years behind. We have nothing at all yet. No defined relationship to the past. It's so very clear that to begin to live in the present, we must first redeem our past, finish with it,. And we can redeem it only by suffering, only by exceptional, ceaseless labor.

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