Nov 24, 2021
i just think about Shakespeare writing King Lear, and The Tempest, where fathers try to keep their daughters close so they won't lose their love, and they find out that they can't control that. but the daughters love their fathers anyway. i think about Shakespeare struggling to let his two daughters go and get married, and loving them, the kind of love that wants to control out of fear of not being reciprocated, but knowing that his daughters are growing up and letting them go anyway. just. Shakespeare as a person, Shakespeare as a father, instead of (or beside) this great genius that we've built him up to be.
