Alison
I should probably have kept quiet on this as it's so long since I've read de
Sade and I have no desire to read it now - I should know better than to
start up on someone whose work I'm not familiar with. I'm not clear though,
as to why an eschewal (to use your term) of the Marquis implies the same for
Shakespeare who is not just another kettle of fish BUT - this is where I get
carried away, so I won't -
one of the deficiencies in de Sade (this comes from a dim memory plus
comments read in recent posts ) is the dullness of a sensibility unable to
make the leap out of -
whereas Shakespeare ( are we really comparing these two? I guess I started
it though I didn't mean to) has a breadth, and a depth of awareness - for me
the quintessential Shakespeare story is of a performance of Coriolanus in
Paris (in the '60's, I think) which was picketed by the Left because it was
seen as Right wing and picketed by the Right etc. Did Shakespeare 'invent'
Iago? He maybe 'saw' him or 'recognised' him, perhaps 'understood' him. I
doubt he 'was' him and with so many other children - , Macbeth, Toby
Belch,Miranda, Prospero, Caliban, Ariel - (don't know why the tempest's on
my mind) etc why single out Iago or Richard.
This is probably all over the place, I like to think before I write but it's
a free period at school, three days before the holidays - three weeks and
just as spring hits (the wind's tearing away outside and it's warm, itchy
weather, blossoms scenting the air and I'm - whatever I am_
Geraldine
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>Subject: Re: Il Divino Marchese - Files
>Date: Mon, 4 Sep 00 19:16:14 +1100
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> >I'll finish with a quotation from someone whose sensibilities I'd trust
>over
> >de Sade anyday -
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> >Lilies that fester smell
> >far worse than weeds -
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>The problem, Geraldine, being that to eschew Sade and what he challenges
>might end in the eschewal of Shakespeare, whose questions are just as
>difficult. This troubles me enormously.
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>He was also the man who invented Iago, and wrote the scene between
>Richard and Anne where he seduces her over the corpse of her own husband.
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>Best
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>Alison
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