
Paul Cantor: Shakespeare and Politics
Conversations with Bill Kristol
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Shakespeare and the Sonnets
Shakespeare also wrote poems, the sonnets. Have you spent much time on them? Actually, i have not. They fit in with what i have to say about the analysis of romantic love. There are such textual problems with the sonnets, it's hard to know how to deal with them. It is interesting that in those days, to become famous and respectable, you had to write poetry. And sh Shakespeare seems to have wanted younow play writing was his day job,. Like waiting tables and hollywood, waiting for your big break. He became very famous for writing plays. But he gave up his hope of being a poet instead of being a playwright.
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