[lbo-talk] From another thread

Joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Fri Nov 27 19:37:07 PST 2009


Carrol writes:

'I really don't think Shakespeare added much if anything to humanity's stock of "truths."'

--He added Hamlet.

--He added Henry IV, part 1. (historical drama)

--He recast the tragic mode from the classical heroic ability-to-meet-fate, to the more modern form of tragedy as existential paradox.

I don't know if these are "truths," but they are representations of experiences/realities that did not exist in the classical age.

Joanna



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