I'm bummed that I'll miss the discussion. I'd always told my kids it would take an event of cosmological scale to get my family to visit, and we're having a solar eclipse on the 8th, so I'll be "entertaining". Hope I can watch a recorded version!
Sorry to miss you. I’ll provide more posts like this and perhaps a video, but we don’t record the whole thing. Yes Bloom is the ultimate modern Falstaffian (and I’m pretty sympathetic!)
Great overview of the whole "gross and scope" of these plays. While time has its way, changing everything, what we remember as history is also fickle.
In his eulogy for Chamberlain, Churchill expressed it wonderfully:
"It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events. In one phase men seem to have been right, in another they seem to have been wrong. Then again, a few years later, when the perspective of time has lengthened, all stands in a different setting. There is a new proportion. There is another scale of values."
Thank you.
Thanks again for your always lucid and enlightening essays, Henry!
From what I've read so far, it seems that Harold Bloom is a dyed in the wool Falstaffian
https://books.google.com/books/about/Falstaff.html?id=HYXZDAAAQBAJ
I'm bummed that I'll miss the discussion. I'd always told my kids it would take an event of cosmological scale to get my family to visit, and we're having a solar eclipse on the 8th, so I'll be "entertaining". Hope I can watch a recorded version!
Sorry to miss you. I’ll provide more posts like this and perhaps a video, but we don’t record the whole thing. Yes Bloom is the ultimate modern Falstaffian (and I’m pretty sympathetic!)
Henry,
Great overview of the whole "gross and scope" of these plays. While time has its way, changing everything, what we remember as history is also fickle.
In his eulogy for Chamberlain, Churchill expressed it wonderfully:
"It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events. In one phase men seem to have been right, in another they seem to have been wrong. Then again, a few years later, when the perspective of time has lengthened, all stands in a different setting. There is a new proportion. There is another scale of values."