3.96 avg rating — 195,287 ratings

"Contains the only American in Shakespeare, Malvolio who wants to marry "the boss's wife"--in fact, the boss herself--for which he is declared insane, placed in a black cell so the spirits that craze him may exit, and "cured" by a psychologist-priest-clown Feste. Published one of my 3 best academic articles on this, about rings and vows, ed by J Schiffer. "

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"The Bard's Marxist play, "So distribution should undo excess, and each man haver enough"(4.1). Lear himself on homelessness,""Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, / That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,/ How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides...defend you/ From seasons such as this?" Lear asks, and reflects, "O, I have ta'en too little care of this!" The Russian film version, my favorite, with music by Shostakovich. But I hate it on stage--can't watch the blinding of Gloucester."

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"I have lots memorized from this little translation from Hebrew and Greek, some 50+ writers. The first 12 books were translated from Hebrew at a H.S., Westminster School, London (1611). King Jimmy's translators had great ears, though my second favorite trans is Erasmus's Latin (1516), banned by the Catholic Church I think because it's better than the Vulgate."

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"Read this among six Moliere plays in French after a grad school defeat because a prominent professor never read my papers. Can't recall if this is the wone with the hilarious young physician's courtship, wherein he includes his paper on thorax anatomy.
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"A wonderful corrective to religious hypocrisy, as current today as in 1664: say, Jimmy Swaggart and Newt Gingrich in the 90s, not to mention the legion since than."

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""Everyone complains of his memory, no-one of his judgement.""

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"To sum my three published articles on this play, it's written during England's change of monarch, and it's about a new/ replacement ruler who pretends moral superiority,but immodestly proposes to let Isabella's brother out of jail (for sex before marriage) if she sleeps with him. Contains a "bed trick/substitution" possibly learned from G Bruno's earlier Candelaio, which I translated (performed at Bridewell Theatre, London 4 April 14)."

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""Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie.""

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