Rosenbaum hits one out of the park!

Please, please read this article Dr. Sexson found. Go to the link and read the article in it's entirety. I just pulled some interesting snippets. It pertains to the lecture we had from Dr. Minton and of course to the class as a whole! Very cool stuff!

The Novel of the Century: Nabokov's Pale Fire by Ron Rosenbaum.
"Pale Fire is the most Shakespearean work of art the 20th century has produced, the only prose fiction that offers Shakespearean levels of depth and complexity, of beauty, tragedy and inexhaustible mystery. One of the achievements of Brian Boyd's book is that he makes explicit the profound way in which Pale Fire is a Shakespearean novel–not just in its global vision and the infinite local reflections in a global eye it offers, but also in the profound way in which Pale Fire is haunted by specific works of Shakespeare, and by Shakespeare himself as Creator."

"Scholars have argued for centuries over the identity and significance of "onlie begetter," but there can be little doubt that the only begetter passage in Pale Fire is one more instance of the way "the underside of the weave" of Pale Fire is shot through with a web of Shakespearean references, the way Pale Fire is dedicated to, haunted by, a work of Shakespeare–and not the most obvious one. The obvious one is Timon of Athens , since it seems at first that Pale Fire takes its title from this amazing passage in Timon , a bitter denunciation of a cosmos of Universal Theft: I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun; The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears. God is that great!... And, of course, the theme of theft, all Creation as theft from a greater Creator, is shot through the book and may reflect Nabokov's theft from–at the very least his debt to–Shakespeare"

"Pale Fire is as startling, as stunning, as life-changing as the sudden heart-stopping appearance of a real ghost. And the real ghost that inspires Pale Fire from beyond the grave, the real shade that haunts its reflected sky is not Hazel Shade's, but Shakespeare's Hamlet ."