Hazlitt didn't say that watching Kean was like "having him revealed by strokes of lightning", it was Coleridge (who actually said "like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning"). And Coleridge didn't mean it as a compliment either!
Alexgrammy 5 months ago
Nice tribute to Kean!
eslubin 1 year ago
Hazlitt didn't say that watching Kean was like "having him revealed by strokes of lightning", it was Coleridge (who actually said "like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning"). And Coleridge didn't mean it as a compliment either!
Alexgrammy 5 months ago
Nice tribute to Kean!
eslubin 1 year ago