When a piece of art inspires you, it literally in-spires, breaths into you. It makes us want to create new art. Or, maybe it’s a more basic instinct. From the beginning of our lives, when we hear a good story, a story that as Winterson says becomes “talismanic” for us, what do we say? “Tell it again.”
Over at The Millions, Stefanie Peters explores the influence of Shakespeare in modern literature, and the powerful reasons for why writers keep returning to his works, again and again.
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