Macbeth in Venice.(Book Review)

From: The Antioch Review | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

by William Logan. Penguin, 76 pp., $17.00. Through superb technique and an impressive range of reference, William Logan effortlessly captures Venice's decadent excess: every canal, alley, work of art, or architectural detail evokes the inescapable stream of who and what has gone before. The sequence "The Shorter Aeneid" sets the tone and pattern: two refugees from Germany arrive in postwar London, but it is in Venice that one, "Aeneas," beholds "that other world," his guide "a lounging Englishman" playing Sibyl of Cumae: "I'll guide you through a labyrinth of names.'" In fact, ...

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