id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_awet55qn6zgrfp435j32konefe Paul A. Kottman Shakespeare's Individualism by Peter Holbrook (review) 2013.0 5 .pdf application/pdf 2192 121 60 Shakespeare's Individualism by Peter Holbrook (review) Shakespeare's Individualism by Peter Holbrook (review) In Shakespeare's Individualism, however, Peter Holbrook takes Polonius's Holbrook argues that "Shakespeare is committed to fundamentally modern values: Holbrook's primary aim is not to establish the association but to remind us of it, and to assemble passages from Shakespeare's drama that defend and define "the authentic individual will" (228). livable society, or it is not—in which case, we must accept that "Shakespeare's individualism limits his ethical commitments" (35). " This commitment to liberty and individuality," writes Holbrook, "is the main reason we should read [Shakespeare] It is difficult to dispute the claim that Shakespeare depicts modern individuals, how the fate of a social world itself unfolds through our individual actions. So, Holbrook's individualism on its own cannot fully explain modern life or particular, individual "interest" and "aims" of Shakespeare's characters are never the subjective fates of modern individuals who, to stick with Hegel's phrasing, ./cache/work_awet55qn6zgrfp435j32konefe.pdf ./txt/work_awet55qn6zgrfp435j32konefe.txt