On the Moral Purpose of Literature
In Shakespeare’s Comedies: A Very Short Introduction, Bart van Es briefly discusses Samuel Johnson’s gripe with what Es calls “the apparent lack of utility to the…
In Shakespeare’s Comedies: A Very Short Introduction, Bart van Es briefly discusses Samuel Johnson’s gripe with what Es calls “the apparent lack of utility to the…
I’m not going to discuss what makes a work of literature a classic. That’s a complicated, consuming question. What I want to address is when one…