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“Othello is about many different kinds of love: it’s about the light, beautiful side of love, and it’s about the twisted, darker side of love, and it’s about how, if you flip the emotional coin, love can make you do terrible things. (James Earl Jones)”
― Living with Shakespeare: Actors, Directors, and Writers on Shakespeare in Our Time
― Living with Shakespeare: Actors, Directors, and Writers on Shakespeare in Our Time
“Nor do we need such a great deal of ingenuity to see that all, or nearly all, the great issues in human life make their appearance on Jane Austen's narrow stage. True, it is only a stage of petty domestic circumstance; but that, after all, is the only stage where most of us are likely to meet them.
Jane Austen's stage, then, is narrow; it is also devoted to entertainment; and we may fail to recognize the great issues of life in their humorous garb unless we are prepared to view the comic mode as an entertainment which can be both intellectually and morally serious. - Ian Watt - On Sense and Sensbility”
― A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
Jane Austen's stage, then, is narrow; it is also devoted to entertainment; and we may fail to recognize the great issues of life in their humorous garb unless we are prepared to view the comic mode as an entertainment which can be both intellectually and morally serious. - Ian Watt - On Sense and Sensbility”
― A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
“Today we are less accustomed to look for universal norms in what we read ... partly because we tend to see life, and therefore literature, mainly in terms of individual experience. Jane Austen's own standards were, like those of her age, much more absolute; and as a novelist she presented all her characters in terms of of their relations to a fixed code of values. - Ian Watt "On Sense and Sensibility”
― A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
― A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
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