Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Greer Germaine

Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Greer Germaine

Author:Greer, Germaine [Greer, Germaine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002-02-20T16:00:00+00:00


12. Scenes from a droll, showing an assemblage of Shakespearian characters, 1662.

Again, it is an unassuming remark of Wittgenstein’s which shows a way into Shakespeare’s conceptual world:

‘Shakespeare displays the dance of human passions, one might say. Hence he has to be objective; otherwise he would not so much display the dance of human passions, as talk about it. But he displays it to us in a dance, not naturalistically.’

By following this insight through its implications, we may begin to see how essential is Shakespeare’s invisibility and how irrelevant his opinions.



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