Lincoln found that Shakespeare’s universal appeal lay in his depiction of shared human qualities. Disloyalty, jealousy, revenge, hatred, madness, self-destructiveness, tomfoolery, devotion, faith, depression – they were all there in Shakespeare’s plays, delivered in language so carefully calibrated that they remained under artistic control.
-David S. Reynolds
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