…general, one of the great arts is how to say many things at the same time. I mean, look at a play by Shakespeare. This proceeds on one level. He was an exceedingly good playwright. I mean, it proceeds admirably on this storytelling level. But all the…

…different worlds at the same time and I mean I've been greatly struck for example in seeing excellent prose translations of Shakespeare at the Comitee Francaise in Paris and you see what an admirable playwright he was but you lose this extraordinary well,…

…Francaise in Paris and you see what an admirable playwright he was but you lose this extraordinary well, the real genius of Shakespeare, which is the fact that you are living in many worlds of experience at the same time, owing to his extraordinary use…

…general, one of the great arts is how to say many things at the same time. I mean, look at a play by Shakespeare. This proceeds on one level. He was an exceedingly good playwright. I mean, it proceeds admirably on this storytelling level. But all the…

…different worlds at the same time. And I mean, I've been greatly struck, for example, in seeing excellent prose translations of Shakespeare at the Comédie Française in Paris, and you see what an admirable playwright he was, but you lose this extraordinary…

…Française in Paris, and you see what an admirable playwright he was, but you lose this extraordinary well, the real genius of Shakespeare, which is the fact that you are living in many worlds of experience at the same time, owing to his extraordinary use…

…art. I mean, maybe very, very elegant and beautiful, but if you can impose order upon a much more complex mass of material, as Shakespeare was able to do, This seems to me intrinsically a superior form of art, and I would say this is true of any kind…

…in literature depend on these purely fortuitous arrival of extraordinary people. I mean, nobody could conceivably have foreseen Shakespeare. I mean, nothing preceding Shakespeare really indicated what this man would be. Nothing in Russian literature really…

…purely fortuitous arrival of extraordinary people. I mean, nobody could conceivably have foreseen Shakespeare. I mean, nothing preceding Shakespeare really indicated what this man would be. Nothing in Russian literature really indicated that Tolstoy would come…

…then, you've got a literary psychologist who was about 400 years ahead. I mean, of course, you've just got to compare Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Ben Jonson... being a scientific psychologist, I mean, who followed the whole doctrine of humour, as you find…

…I can conceive something much more inclusive than tragedy equally sublime but also I mean it's adumbrated in some of the things of Shakespeare but I think that if we get another Shakespeare one of these days which I hope we do maybe we shall see…

…sublime but also I mean it's adumbrated in some of the things of Shakespeare but I think that if we get another Shakespeare one of these days which I hope we do maybe we shall see something really terrific You consider the tragedies of Shakespeare…

…another Shakespeare one of these days which I hope we do maybe we shall see something really terrific You consider the tragedies of Shakespeare impure in that sense. Well, I think they could go further. I mean, I think that in some way the tragic and…

…that with one novel, Brave New World, Mr. Huxley has been read by more college students in America than any writer except Shakespeare. Always through this long period of writing, he has maintained his a very clear position of the limitations of society, of…

…is the drama, and then there is spectacle. And very often, I regret to say, in contemporary productions of old plays, of Shakespeare for example, the spectacle is often made to interfere with the drama, but both have their legitimate place. If you look at…

…not much beyond that. And now let me point out that even if I were a very great poet, even if I were Shakespeare, I would probably find it virtually impossible to write about the subject which we are talking about tonight. I really would defy…

…I would probably find it virtually impossible to write about the subject which we are talking about tonight. I really would defy Shakespeare to write a sonnet or a tragedy about the population problem. As I began to say this afternoon, this is really a…

…to regain a certain amount of health and sanity which we are always undermining by our conscious activities. As Shakespeare put it in Macbeth, this wonderful passage about sleep, Shakespeare incidentally has many extraordinary passages about sleep. He says,…

…we are always undermining by our conscious activities. As Shakespeare put it in Macbeth, this wonderful passage about sleep, Shakespeare incidentally has many extraordinary passages about sleep. He says, sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care, the…

…to the problem of the relation of art and the artist to society, the questions we have to ask are these. Does art, as Shakespeare says, hold up the mirror to nature? Or does nature, as Wilder suggested, often hold up the mirror to art? In other words,…

…to get rid of the mosquito and therefore to get rid of malaria, which you will find mentioned constantly in the plays of Shakespeare under the word ague. People suffer from the ague, the tertian, the quaternary ague. that it took, as I say, about three…

…need to fulfill if we are to have an integrated viewpoint, in a sense it is summed up in an extraordinary phrase in Shakespeare where Hotspur says, For thoughts the slave of life, and life's times fool, and time that makes survey of all the rest must…

…fool, and time that makes survey of all the rest must have a stop. This is one of those fantastic things one finds in Shakespeare where in a line and a half he throws out an entire philosophy and then passes on to something else. But here one sees…

…in a specific form such as this, one can see very well that it is excessively difficult and that we really do require some kind of Shakespeare to solve it for us. Well, I, as I say, shall do my best to go ahead with with what I can do with my…

…why what is the point of classical education I mean after all Virgil and Homer seem a very long way away even Chaucer and Shakespeare seem a very long way away so why bother with classical education well the answer has been given many times and can be…