"Shakespeare believed in fate, order, and forgiveness; we believe in history, justice, and compassion—three pairings so similar as to sometimes seem the same, though they are not. The novelistic, psychological work of explaining why evil people are evil gets very little energy from him. His villains are the products not of trauma and history but of nature and destiny." -- from "Why Rewrite Shakespeare?" by Adam Gopnik published in The New Yorker
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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/why-rewrite-shakespeare
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