The pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Samuel JohnsonTags: shakespeare-criticism
[Henry James'] essay's closing lines can either be read neutrally or as a more purposeful wish that this mystery [of Shakespeare's authorship] will one day be resolved by the 'criticism of the future': 'The figured tapestry, the long arras that hides him, is always there ... May it not then be but a question, for the fullness of time, of the finer weapon, the sharper point, the stronger arm, the more extended lunge?' Is Shakespeare hinting here that one day critics will hit upon another, more suitable candidate, identify the individual in whom the man and artist converge and are 'one'? If so, his choice of metaphor - recalling Hamlet's lunge at the arras in the closet scene - is fortunate. Could James have forgotten that the sharp point of Hamlet's weapon finds the wrong man?
James ShapiroTags: henry-james authorship shakespeare-criticism
Ω! έχει πολλή πέραση
ένα ψέμα με αλαφρύν όρκο
και ένα αστείο με σοβαρό φρύδι.
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