Remembering Shakespeare

"Remembering Shakespeare, in this year of the 400th anniversary of his death, would seem to call especially for the most far-reaching aspect of his achievement, for so long unrecognized, to be at last duly noted and laid open to view. The longstanding challenge and problem of living through tragedy, as opposed to living beyond it or simply carrying on in spite of it, is hereby highlighted. Shakespeare was able to live through tragedy and consequently could come into those higher evolutionary states of mind and being, until now so little known, that are so impressively represented in his last plays"--