Harold C. Goddard (1878–1950)
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- Juridisk navn
- Goddard, Harold Clarke
- Fødselsdato
- 1878-08-13
- Dødsdag
- 1950-01-27
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
- Uddannelse
- Amherst College
Columbia University - Erhverv
- Shakespearean scholar
writer - Organisationer
- Swarthmore College (Chair, English Department)
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- #44,322
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Often, his points are completely absurd, argued on a philosophical level rather than even remotely relating to form or context. And his elitism - particularly when it comes to material he believes to have been written for the so-called "groundlings" - is deeply off-putting. But when he's right, he's right. Paradoxically, for a posthumously published work, I think this second volume is better than the first, perhaps because Goddard's high-art style works better with the more complicated later works, when Shakespeare really was writing with something of a bubble, rather than the earlier works where many of Goddard's beliefs were, if conceptually tight, ill-related to any realities of Shakespeare's era.
An interesting read, but hardly in the Top 100 works on the Bard.… (mere)