Probably helped WS to have Victor Hugo as a translator.

Mike



On Thu, Aug 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM Mary Collins <[email protected]>
wrote:

>     He is also observing one of the rules of Classical Tragedy, so beloved
> of the French, which is to tell not show, especially concerning anything
> violent. Former French major, moi, learned at UT that the French generally
> abhorred Shakespeare until the Romantic period. Maggie, am I speaking la
> vérité? The idea of Macbeth brandishing that bloody knife or the terrible
> torture of Gloucester in Lear was considered barbaric. (And mixing clowns
> and the tragic was simply incomprehensible.)
>
> They have relaxed about it and embrace M. Shakespeare now.
>
> Marie
>
> Mary Collins
> 646-554-3076
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>
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM Mike Godwin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> My favorite instance:
>>
>> "I killed the slave that was a-hanging thee."
>> "'Tis true, my lord, he did."
>>
>> Love to all,
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM David Sharpe <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
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