William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare · Shakespeare's art
in the texts
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
English playwright whose works Lear and Hamlet are cited as literary reflections of succession themes.
) This ancient doubt has left traces of itself on literature no less than on history, since it manifestly affects the plot of Shakespeare’s Hamlet;
Like Laertes in the Odyssee and like Lear in the tragedy of Shakespeare, the old Chief, in the decay of his vigour, parts with his power and retains but a fraction of the property he had administered;
History of Modern Philosophy from Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time
English playwright invoked in an analogy about the relationship between ancient and modern worldviews.
But the elder contestant is no more confuted by the younger than the drama of Sophocles by the drama of Shakespeare, than youth by age or spring by autumn.
The Genius of the Common Law
Playwright, invoked as author of the trial scene between Shylock and Antonio.
Wagner took no more license than many other dramatists have taken, surely none so great as the wholesale violation of natural as well as legal justice which is accepted without demur — such is Shakespeare’s art, in the suit of Shylock against Antonio.