Resenhas - Timon of Athens

ricardo marçal 16/07/2020

"I had the priviledge, in my youth, of attending Wilson Knight's performance of selected scenes from 'Timon of Athens'; the critic-actor invested Timon with all the sublimity of Lear, but the reverberation did not follow me out of the theater, and was heard no more. 'Timon of Athens' is an amazing torso, powerfully expressionistic, yet Shakespeare evidently concluded that it was a mistake, and he was right.(...) He never staged it, and parts of it are less finished than others. (...) I suspect that Shakespeare experienced a personal revulsion at what he was finishing, and turned away from it to do some play doctoring upon what became 'Pericles', thus inaugurating his final mode of visionary dramas, or romances. (...) As Bloom Brontosaurus Bardolater, an archaic survival among Shakespearean critics, I do not hesitate to find an immense personal bitterness in Timon of Athens'."

Harold Bloom: Shakespeare - The Invention of the Human, c. 29