"In short, Hamlet succumbed to those very tensions to which Schlegel, according to his letters to his brother, was subject himself. And while he thus interpreted Hamlet, and indeed the whole of post-classical literature, in his own image, he projected into Greek literature all the ideals he longed for, all the harmony and peace of mind that was denied him. Greece seemed to him the panacea for his own ills, and he prescribed the same cure to the world at large."
-- Friedrich Schlegel, Hans Eichner, 1970, p. 26.
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