“ A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas. ”
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“ In high school English we were supposed to write a paper on Shakespeare, and I decided to write a Shakespearean play. I wrote a five-act tragedy in Elizabethan iambic pentameter. It was about Alexander the Great. My teacher accused me of plagiarism until I proved to him neither Shakespeare nor anyone else had written a play about Alexander the Great. ”
- Samuel Dash- Copy
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“ Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation… ”
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