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primarily as a poet,'someexplanation is called for.How should we read Shakespcare?  \nWo start with so many lines of versc on a printed page whichwe read as we should read any othcr pocm.We have to eluci-date the meaning(using Dr Richards's fourfold definition')and tounravel ambiguities;we have to estimate the kind and quality ofthe imagcry and determine the precise degree of evocation of par-ticular figures;we have to allow full weight to each word,explor-ing its \"tentacular roots,'and to determinc how it conirols and iscontrolled by the rhythmic movement of the passage in which itoccurs.In short,we have to decide exactly why the lines are soand not otherwiso.'  \nAs we read other factors come into play.The lines have acumulative cffect.‘Plot’,aspects of ‘character'and recurrent'themes'—all ‘precipitates from the memory'—help to determineour reaction at a given point.There is a constant reference back-wards and forwards.But the work of detailed analysis continucsto the last line of the last act.If the razor-edge of sensibility isblunted at any point we cannot claim to have read what Shakes-peare wrote,however often our eyes may have travelled over thepage.A play of Shakespeare's is a precise particular experience,apoem—and precision and particularity are exactly what is lackingin the greater part of Shakespeare criticism,criticism that dealswith Hamlet or Othello in terms of abstractions that have nothingto do with the unique arrangement of words that constitutes theseplays.  \nObviously what is wanted to reinforce the case against the tra-ditional methods is a detailed examination of a particular playUnfonunately anything approaching a complete analysis is preclud-  \nFROM HOIW MANY CHILDREN HAD LADY MACBETH?273  \ned by the scope of the present essay.The following remarks onohc play,Macbeth,are therefore,not offered as a final criticismof the play;they merely point to factors that criticism must takeinto account if i is to have any degree of relevance,and emphasizethe kind of effect that is necessarily overlooked when we discuss aShakespeare play in terms of characters 'copied from life,'or of‘Shakespeare's knowledge of the human hear't.'  \nEven here there is a further reservation to be made.In all eluci-dation there is an element of crudity and distortion.\"The true gene-ralization,'Mr Eliot reminds us,is not something supcrposed uponan accumulation of perceptions;the perceptions do not,in a reallyappreciative mind,accumulate as a mass,but form themselves asa structure;and criticism is the statement in language of this struc-ture;it is a development of sensibility.\"Of course,the only fullstatement in language of this structure is in the exact words of thepoem concerned;but what the critic can do is to aid 'the return tothe work of art with improved perception and intensified,becausemore conscious,enjoyment.'He can help others to 'force the subjectto expose itself,'he cannot fully expose it in his own criticism.Andin so far as he paraphrases or ‘explains the meaning'he must distort.The main difference between good and bad critics is that the goodcritic points to something that is actually contained in the work ofart,whereas the bad critic points away from the work in question;he introduces extraneous elements into his appreciation—smudgesthe canvas with his own point.Witi this reservation I should liketo call the following pages an essay in elucidation.  \nⅡI  \nMacbeth is a statement of evil.I use the word ‘statement’(unsatis-factory as it is)in order to stress those qualities that are ‘non-dramatic,if drama is defined according to the canons of WilliamArcher or Dr Bradley.It also happens to be poetry,which meansthat the apprehension of the whole can only be obtained from alively attention to the parts whether they have an immediate bear-ing on the main action or ‘illustra","cbCaigdgU4d1Rpvc","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigdgU4d1Rpvc","pdf",2256593,13,"English","# How should we read Shakespeare?\n## Close 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