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Shakespeare's Characters and the Wheel of Fire

Today I am delighted to bring you a guest post by who writes the Substack. John summarises a tradition of Shakespeare scholarship from Hegel to Bloom, and looks at its counterpart, notably in G. Normally there would be a paywall on something like this, but I want this to be open, so it is going out on the free list.

Normally there would be a paywall on something like this, but I want this to be open, so it is going out on the free list. Do look at John's Substack. I enjoyed his new novel Major Arcana very much.

I enjoyed his new novel Major Arcana very much. In my first year of college, I took a class called Greek Civilization, a comprehensive introduction to Ancient Greece from the Bronze Age through the fall of Athens conducted via the literary record in all the prominent genres: epic and lyric poetry, tragic and comic drama, history and philosophy.

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