Tag: Hamlet
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True Art is Flawed Redux – C.S. Lewis on Imperfect Art
I recently looked back on my blog post, True Art is Flawed, and then I came across this quote from C.S. Lewis about Hamlet. And it’s another great example of what I’m trying to say. Lewis describes the literary debate over whether Hamlet is a good play, and whether it is flawed or whether Shakespeare…
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That’s Not Shakespeare! Or Maybe It Is
“Alas, poor Yorick!” – Howl, from Howl’s Moving Castle, quoting Shakespeare When I first read Howl’s Moving Castle, I didn’t realize this was a quote from Shakespeare until I read Hamlet a year later. Funny how we tend to attribute things to the last person that we remember said them, whether or not they actually…
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