SOURCE: Newman, Karen. “Rereading Shakespeare's Timon of Athens at the Fin de Siècle.” In Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century: The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Los Angeles, 1996, edited by Jonathan Bate, Jill L. Levenson, and Dieter Mehl, pp. 378-89. Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press, 1996.
In the following essay, Newman examines Timon's use of language in the play, and contends that he is a “visionary poet engaged in a dialogue with the universe.”
