Hughes with Shakespeare, or the Night of the Tragic Equation
Résumé
Ted Hughes is questionning the established discourses, and is concerned exactly with what they do not see. He is exploring the dark side of our reading consciousness. That is no doubt the reason why the theory he has developed in Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, which roused some critical contention when it was first published, and led the poet to engage in a brief polemic with John Carey, is now generally considered with embarrassed politeness. This article ambitions merely to offer a brief synthetic survey of this theory.