John Timpane
Writer and editor. Journalist (Philadelphia Inquirer: Commentary Page Editor; media writer; Theater Critic; Books Editor. I specialize in teaching writing in business settings and in ghostwriting autobiographies.
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Shakespeare and the Anatomy of Evil, Revisited (opens the original)
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William Shakespeare was one acquainted with the night.Again and again, he returns to the theme of human evil. How is it even possible that human beings with a conscience and a fully developed moral sense nevertheless choose to do things that most people would say are terrible? Why do we embrace evil, do evil, become evil? His embodiments of evil change as his work changes, from Richard III to Aaron of Titus Andronicus to Claudius of Hamlet, Iago, Edmund of Lear, and the Macbeths. All probe the d
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