“Shakepeare Is More than Cervantes”

Based in Buenos Aires for more than a decade, Chilean narrator and essayist Gonzalo León published a suggestive essay on William Shakespeare, “The English Evil”, in which he planted a singular hypothesis: that our Shakespeare is a rather recent product, the result of readings from the 18th and 19th century. Erudite without being tired and intelligent without giving up the cordiality, PERFIL talked with the author about this solid exercise of lit…