The weird concept
of the "Banality of the Bard"
| T. Tobias Döring William Shakspere Adolf Eichmann |
Professor Tobias Döring in two different reviews in the FAZ (20/10/11) and in the FAZ(12/20/11), evidently sought to articulate his credo of the ‘banality of Shakespeare’—that is, the idea of Shakespeare as a conventional provincial citizen, rather than a noble, intellectually sophisticated, and world-traveled man.”..He used the Concept & Headline of
"The Banality of the Bard"
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 Hannah Arendts German |
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Based on Hannah Ahrendt's "The Banality of Evil"(*1), Tobias Döring, unconsciously or consciously, must have felt the need to express that we are not able to imagine, ( - corresponding to the unimaginable "evil" of Adolf Eichmann) the unimaginable "genius" of William Shakespeare in the conventionality of the ordinary Stratford man..
Hannah Ahrendt was - I suppose- right. - Is Tobias Döring also right?
*1 Hannah Ahrendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) [Paperback]
