DID SHAKESPEARE GIVE US AMBIGUITY?

DID SHAKESPEARE GIVE US AMBIGUITY? In an interview in the May 15 Financial Times, the director Richard Eyre tells Sarah Hemming: “I think that’s one of the gifts of the happy accident of having had Shakespeare…. That we put equivocation and ambiguity at the heart of the art form. I absolutely love it because it’s truer to our experience of life. Absolutely nothing in life is without ambiguity. I like the fact that theatre can represent that.” I accept that Shakespeare made ambiguity central in the English theater. One could say that he made it central in English literature with the exception that Chaucer in THE CANTERBURY TALES was there before him.