Volume 39, Number 13 · July 16, 1992
Fatal Triangles
By Robert M. Adams
A Theatre of Envy: William Shakespeare
by René Girard
Oxford University Press, 353 pp., $29.95
René Girard's new book interprets Shakespeare's plays psychologically, but from an unfamiliar perspective. Girard analyzes Shakespeare as a writer who was once alive and possessed of recognizable attitudes and intentions, some of which can be related to the patterning of the plays.
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