Notice something about all of those figures: Shakespeare is preoccupied with figures who may or may not be crazy.

看一下这些人物：,莎士比亚专注于疯了或者没疯的人物。

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How is Foucault going to mount an argument in which privileged authors -that is to say, figures whom one cites positively and can somehow or another stay in the picture?

福柯又如何为特殊的作者辩护呢,特殊的作者即是经常被一个人引用,这些作家能被辩护吗？

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It's as if a gap has opened up, a gap between the official argument of and the rhetorical figures or the metaphors, Milton's elaborately construed language, which he uses to illustrate that argument.

这就像是一个鸿沟在专著中的正式论点,和运用修辞和比喻的部分之间打开了，弥尔顿精心地解释和分析他用来，阐述这个论点的语言。

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