by nomad » August 7th, 2007, 6:25 pm
That does make sense. I suppose part of good craftsmanship for an artist is knowing your subject well enough to do it justice, without falling into platitudes. The hardest would probably be to portray realistically a character with a position you strongly disagree with.
As for Shakes, I'm not a connaisseur of his work, but he seems to have opted for dealing with passions that are basic to all humanity, rather than with "religious questions". He addressed fear of death ("aye, there's the rub") rather than visions of the hereafter. Prejudices and loves and fears and power struggles seem more his thing. All the best writers are like that, really.
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"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best -- " and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.