Ted Hughes Was Obsessed With Shakespeare (And His Own Inner Demons)

The poet believed that Shakespeare wrote some of the plays almost as a single work, about Puritan suppression of sexuality and an avenging goddess. Why read it now? “The thrilling effrontery of Hughes’s vision has three outstanding and transcendent qualities. First, it hot-wires the reader into the wild voltage of his fascination with myth, language and folklore.”

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