We recognize these uncompromising emotions without shading or nuance as belonging to a bygone age when men still frothed at the mouth-consequently Shakespeare is not a modern psychologist…. There is a brutal simplification in Shakespeare’s depiction of human emotions that makes them quite different from our own: his portrayals of love, wrath, desperation, and merriment fail to come off from sheer violence. Otherwise a book over which a decent veil had best be dropped, it contains an eccentric criticism of Shakespeare:
The Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun made two visits to the United States in his youth, and after the second, between 18, he wrote The Cultural Life of Modern America (1889).
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