I may be attempting to make the opposite point -- I think that the tools of close reading are inappropriately restrictive to reading Shakespeare. The tools of close reading are designed to help wrestle with texts that, for cultural and religious reasons, we do not simply dismiss as wrong. But there's no reason we can't just, if we want, change stuff in Shakespeare.
Re: huh?
Date: 2008-11-19 05:34 am (UTC)