The New PantagruelA Quarterly Journal of Riot & MisruleAn Open Letter to Comment- September 22, 2006 The following was submitted to Comment and accepted for publication but subsequently dropped due to a "lack of space."http://www.newpantagruel.com/2006/09/an_open_letter.php Will in the Void: Stephen Greenblatt's Shakespeare- September 22, 2006 Reviewed in this essay: Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, by Stephen Greenblatt (Norton, 2004), 430 pp., $26.95. In the sixteenth century does not begin, as is conventionally phrased, a separation or differentiation of politics from a religious context; what actually begins is the elimination of the life of the spirit from public representation and the corresponding contraction of politics to a secular nucleus. In this process again we cannot distinguish clear-cut phases;..http://www.newpantagruel.com/2006/09/will_in_the_voi.php |