Austen su Shakespeare
[caption id="attachment_772" align="aligncenter" width="250"] Jane Austen, Mansfield Park: illustrazione di C. E. Brock dal cap. 34[/caption] I do not think I have had a volume of Shakespeare in my hand before, since I was fifteen. - I once saw Henry the 8th acted. - Or I have heard of it from somebody who did - I am not certain which. But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them every where, one is intimate with him by instinct. - No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately." "No doubt, one is familiar with Shakespeare in a degree," said Edmund, "from one's earliest years. His celebrated passages are quoted by every body; they are in half the books we open, and we all talk Shakespeare, use his similes, and describe with h