I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.
I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, th… - Stephen Greenblatt
I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, th…
- Stephen Greenblatt
Poems are difficult to silence. - Stephen Greenblatt
Poems are difficult to silence.
First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so. - Stephen Greenblatt
First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.
The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion. - Stephen Greenblatt
The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.
The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance - and writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dan… - Stephen Greenblatt
The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance - and writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dan…
Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one liv… - Stephen Greenblatt
Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one liv…
Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life. - Stephen Greenblatt
Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.
Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them. - Stephen Greenblatt
Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.
The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone. - Stephen Greenblatt
The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone.
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