Paul Cantor: Shakespeare and Politics
Conversations with Bill Kristol
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Macbeth and Othello - The Homeric Hero
Othello and macbeth are about homeric heroes who are thrust into a modern christian world. They have the opposite of hamlet's problem, though in the same ways. It's the same problem, being caught between two ethics. And some of the other tragedies, you say, sort of focus on the religious question, he theological political. I see othello and Macbeth as the inverse of this.
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