Paul Cantor: Shakespeare and Politics
Conversations with Bill Kristol
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What Do You Think of Shakespeare?
Shakespeare's rome was on corilanus julis and anding cleopatra, with some stuff on julius caesar. i like to connect that diversity with the diversity of regimes he looks at. I think sh Shakespeare understood that not all human types are available at all times. He 's able to portray a different kind of human being in corelanus because he's portraying a different regime,. which means a different set of fundamental beliefs, different attitudes, different options in life.
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