Paul Cantor: Shakespeare and Politics
Conversations with Bill Kristol
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Shakespeare, Shakespeare, and Shakespeare's Comedy
Very few playwrights have written great tragedies and great comedies. arguable that shakespeare is the only one to have done it on that level. In plato's symposium, socrates proposes that the greatest playwright would be able to write both comedies and tragedies. And i think sh Shakespeare's a deeply philosophical poet,. It showsin the fact that he wasn't bound by the limits of either tragedy or comedy.
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