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'Modern quoters cite "Shakespeare" at their peril when they're actually, and recognizably, quoting Shakespearean characters carefully crafted to be at variance with their own language. One of this playwrights most substantial achievements is that, whenever he cites truisms or platitudes, he puts them in the mouths of suspect speakers, [...cont]
— Sep 10, 2026 05:31AM
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...one never does encounter Hamlet "for the first time." Instead the play provides a resonant cultural echo, both forming and reflecting concepts—turns of speech, types of character, philosophical ideas—that seem to preexist any single experience of the play, and at the same time to be disseminated from it.
— Sep 13, 2026 02:21AM
...one never does encounter Hamlet "for the first time." Instead the play provides a resonant cultural echo, both forming and reflecting concepts—turns of speech, types of character, philosophical ideas—that seem to preexist any single experience of the play, and at the same time to be disseminated from it.
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[...]something that the "Bartlett's"—or now the internet—approach to quotation entirely fails to acknowledge, with the result that the irony turns back upon the quoter.'
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