Dominque Goy-Blanket
“There is no Elizabethan theory of progress” (cyclical nature of history, whether humanist or providential)
A.C. Bradley
Shakespeare’s “impartiality makes us uncomfortable”
William Hazlitt
‘the dialogues in Shakespeare are carried on without any consciousness of what is to follow, without any appearance of preparation or premeditation’
David Bevington
‘[Shakespeare’s characters] seem to anticipate their own destinies.’