ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315018577/389c1d69-bf6d-4f43-8610-58d40a6d0a1a/content/Inline_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> Professor Mark Van Doren recently wrote a book about Shakespeare based upon the comfortable postulate that Shakespeare does not “seem to call for explanations beyond those which a whole heart and a free mind abundantly supply,” 1 and he must have been discouraged when, after all his efforts to rid it of the prejudicial aura of books and learning, the friendly literary critic of the New Yorker magazine chose to acclaim it as a work of scholarship. For it is a heartening conviction, this, that John Doe has only to reassure himself about the wholeness of his heart and the freedom of his mind to undertake to interpret Shakespeare. Any heart and any mind will do.
