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[MollyBloom]

Beaver:

I do have to say, however, that I absolutely love Eliot. Whenever I travel, I bring a copy of The Wastleland and Other Poems, and it seems to fit my mood for "anytime, anyplace." Same for Baudelaire. I have a great dual-language book of Les Fleurs du Mal and that's another traveling staple.

I do have to say that I have not studied Shakespeare's sonnets as well as I would have liked, but I do find the whole "Dark Lady" theme entertaining and a mysterious discussion. Wilde's "The Portrait of Mr. WH" is a witty supplement to that theory.

Has anyone read Madame Bovary? I just finished it and definitely found it sort of like Henry James: a lot of description and not a lot of dialogue, but the dialogue was wonderful. Although I think I prefer Flaubert over James in that aspect. I had a professor that ruined James for me, so I am a bit hostile towards his writings. I like his brother's works better.

[MollyBloom]

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however, in the larger realm of this thing called imaginative literature it is hard for me to think of Shakespeare�s peer.

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I think the reason for that is because all of Shax's contemporaries, nowadays, have been shadowed by the Great Bard. Sure, people know of Marlowe and Company, but when you think of Elizabethan/Jacobean works, drama, especially Shax's dramas, come to mind.

To open up the literary criticism field, maybe "they" shouldn't focus all their energy on Shax, but focus on his contemporaries and see how the new criticism of their works can change previous readings of Shax.