Not exactly P. From a wonderful piece by Howard Jacobsen

[Mark Kohut]

 in The Guardian about *The Merchant of Venice* about which
he has written the novel in the new series of reimagining Shakespeare's
works.
"letting language do its own remembering"....THAT is wonderful.
"unworked significance and unsorted old material" ---just right. He is a
very good novelist and knows.

Applies, I would suggest, to our favorite writer here.

Also, if you haven't read or watched this play since high school or
college, I recommend it as who wouldn't but you might be surprised in your
maturity.


"I am not convinced that Shakespeare was ever interested in such abstract,
academic mapping [scholars finding doubling, mirroring, etc.]  But it is
part of his greatness to allow unworked significance and unsorted old
material to have their way without him in a play. DH Lawrence wrote
astutely about what happens to a living work when the artist puts his
finger in the pan, forcing its outcome. It ceases to be a living work. And
Shakespeare was a writer in Lawrence’s sense, ideology free, allowing
characters to find their true selves in interaction with one another, and
letting language do its own remembering."
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