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4 Mar 2026 Conversations with Tyler Henry Oliver on Measure for Measure, Late Bloomers, and the Smartest Writers in English
“I think that’s much to her credit because she is so distinguished as very much her own writer and her own sort of thinker.”
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- 4 Mar 2026
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…What did Jane Austen take from Shakespeare? Well, Jane Austen loved going to see Shakespeare, but I think she probably loved going to see Mrs. Siddons and things like that. She had a great sense of the dramatic and the theatrical, which is why Mansfield Park works so well in those scenes. I think she’s clearly read Shakespeare, and she’s clearly absorbed a lot of his language, but in a funny way, she’s one of the least Shakespearean of the English novelists. I think that’s much to her credit because she is so distinguished as very much her own writer and her own sort of thinker. Is the Scottish Enlightenment or Smith taking much from Shakespeare?…
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