The final difficulty of reading madness [...] is that in the act of doing so, one dissociates oneself from it or associates oneself with it, and in either case becomes disqualified as an interpreter. To read madness sanely is to miss the point; to read madness madly is to have one’s point be missed.
— Carol Thomas Neely, "`Documents in Madness’: Reading
Madness and Gender in Shakespeare’s Tragedies and Early Modern Culture,"
Shakespeare Quarterly 42.3 (1991): 315-38, at 316.
Brian Moffatt asks if MoffCasting is blogging or not. And yes, Brian – I think it really is. It is more than blogging in fact. The way you do it, I will listen again.
And speaking of audio-files… here’s a big shout out to Sheila and Mike!
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