[Redbook2:88][19761123:1820]{The Infinite Genius –
Shakespeare}[23rd November 1976]
19761123.1820
'Any
performance is, therefore, a step along the never-ending journey
towards definition, clarity, unambiguity of expression.
Shakespeare's mind* is unfathomable. There is no centre to his maze.'
Ian
McKellen
'A
distant, fabled place'
The
Times (Saturday Review),
9th
October 1976.
*[The manuscript has "mine", which is picturesque and
not inappropriate, but McKellen's own website has it as 'mind'
(echoing a remark attributed to Coleridge: "The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind." (Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. II (1835), p. 301.)): http://www.mckellen.com/writings/distant.htm . <20160108-09>]
(echoing a remark attributed to Coleridge: "The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind." (Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. II (1835), p. 301.)): http://www.mckellen.com/writings/distant.htm . <20160108-09>]
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