Re: Shakespeare
Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Wed, 04 Nov 1998 01:57:04 -0500
Matthew_Stevenson@baylor.edu wrote:
> sonnets, odes to larks--these he thought were art...but those plays and such,
> but means to a buck...matt
It seems unlikely that Shakespeare would take no interest in his craft
other than as a means of generating income, ceasing to pursue aesthetic
ends beyond the point at which his lines could be seen to turn a
profit. Between, say, _Comedy of Errors_ and _King Lear_, Shakespeare's
language goes from a crisp and sensible regular iambic pentameter to an
obfuscated, irregular verse rich with difficult symbols and indulged
passages. Such changes, presumably, did not cater to public demand.
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Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu