What We Know Is That Shakespeare Wrote

Now A Protestant Confronting A Catholic Ghost Is Exactly Shakespeare's Way Of Grappling With What Was Not Simply A General Social Problem But One Lived Out In His Own Life.

There's A Huge Amount Of Work On Adam And Eve, From The Ancient World To The Present. Saint Augustine Was Obsessed With Them.i Don't Know If It Helps My Research, But I Get A Big Kick Out Of Mark Twain, Who Wrote "the Diaries Of Adam And Eve." He Wrote Very Funny Stuff On Them. I Sometimes Read Things That Are Loosely Related To What I'm Thinking And Writing About.

What We Know Is That Shakespeare Wrote Perhaps The Most Remarkable Body Of Passionate Love Poetry In The English Language To A Young Man.

It Is Not That Shakespeare's Art Is In Technicolor And Fancy, And That Real Life Is Black And White And Tedious. The Life That Shakespeare Was Living Was The Only Life He Had, And He Had To Use It To Create What He Was Doing.

A Comparably Capacious Embrace Of Beauty And Pleasure - An Embrace That Somehow Extends To Death As Well As Life, To Dissolution As Well As Creation - Characterizes Montaigne's Restless Reflections On Matter In Motion, Cervantes's Chronicle Of His Mad Knight, Michelangelo's Depiction Of Flayed Skin, Leonardo's Sketches Of Whirlpools, Caravaggio's Loving Attention To The Dirty Soles Of Christ's Feet.