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A review by tumblyhome_caroline
Shakespeare is Hard, But So is Life: A Radical Guide to Shakespearian Tragedy by Fintan O'Toole
3.0
I really very much enjoyed the Hamlet chapter
A bookish post. Five essays.. an introduction to suggest that how we interpret Shakespeare today has a lot to do with the Victorian’s, who wanted to force the plays into a classical mould where they don’t really belong. And how that kills the joy to an
The Hamlet essay was brilliant and made the play feel very different and more real. It was a real shake up of the myths and dogma surrounding Hamlet. But then it got a bit boring and slightly dictatorial.. i agreed with most but I didn’t agree with it all.. but, valuable for the Hamlet essay, the rest, a little less so.
That’s it.
A bookish post. Five essays.. an introduction to suggest that how we interpret Shakespeare today has a lot to do with the Victorian’s, who wanted to force the plays into a classical mould where they don’t really belong. And how that kills the joy to an
The Hamlet essay was brilliant and made the play feel very different and more real. It was a real shake up of the myths and dogma surrounding Hamlet. But then it got a bit boring and slightly dictatorial.. i agreed with most but I didn’t agree with it all.. but, valuable for the Hamlet essay, the rest, a little less so.
That’s it.