Words Worth Noting - July 8, 2024

“During the 19th century, and through much of the early 20th, Hamlet was regarded as Shakespeare’s central and most significant play, because it dramatized a central preoccupation of the age of Romanticism: the conflict of consciousness and action; the sense of consciousness as a withdrawal from action which could make for futility, and yet was all that could prevent action from becoming totally mindless.”

Northrop Frye Northrop Frye on Shakespeare