William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo

A passionate critical study that defends and celebrates an English dramatist as the supreme force of imagination, arguing that his genius transcends rigid neoclassical rules by boldly mixing the comic and the tragic, the noble and the grotesque; it examines his freedom from the unities and decorum, the psychological depth and moral complexity of his characters, and the way his language and theatrical vision capture universal humanity, reshaping modern drama and literature.

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