By Harold C. Goddard
In really good and authoritative volumes, Harold C. Goddard takes readers on a travel during the works of William Shakespeare, celebrating his incomparable performs and unsurpassed literary genius.
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Shakespeare came close to answering that question in a classic passage in Troilus and Cressida that is possibly unsurpassed in all his works in its importance for an understanding of the poet's own method of observation and creation. It is where Achilles is astounded to discover that Ulysses has penetrated the secret of his love for Polyxena: 'Tis known, Achilles, that you are in love With one of Priam's daughters. : Ha! known! : Is that a wonder? The providence that's in a watchful state Knows almost every grain of Plutus' gold, Finds bottom in the uncomprehensive deeps, Keeps place with thought, and almost, like the gods, Does thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles.
And his intellect, the other of the two pillars on which his power rests, slips at the same time. -to find a murderer for him. The profound transformation in the man is confirmed in the next scene but one. Back in the first act, in a situation seldom surpassed for sheer audacity, Richard woos for his wife the widovl of a man he has just murdered, choosing for the occasion of that wooing the funeral of her father-inlaw, whonl he has also killed. The more impossible the task, the more it THE MEANING OF SHAKESPEARE appeals to Richard's gigantic pride.
It contains passages of natural beauty that, taken by themselves, are not unlike Shakespeare. Several of its leading figures, notably Titus, Tamora, and Aaron, nlight be considered rough first drafts of later Shakespearean characters. And there are what look like premonitions of specific lines and phrases that occur in the poet's later works. Of these Jast the most striking is the memorable couplet: , 33 r THE MEANING OF SHAKESPEARE Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods? Draw near them, then, in being merciful, advice which almost no one in the play, including the speaker, ever follows.