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What's the point? How many papers on Othello do we NEED? My real problem is a crisis of my major. I am beginning to see all this work as just hateful dross. NOTHING new can be said about anything, esp. Shaxpeer.
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Shakespeare's Sonnet 59
If there be nothing new, but that which
Hath been before, how are our brains beguiled
Which, labouring for invention, bear amiss
The second burden of a former child!
Likely he was referring to the bible verse
"The thing that hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 1.9)
Maybe a good angle for an essay, if you're willing to stretch things a bit.