ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to outline Shakespeare’s relation to “philosophy,” conceived here non-technically; indeed much as many of Shakespeare’s peers would have understood that word, as a total and fundamental vision of reality. Partly it will argue for the importance of what I shall call the dynamic perspective in Shakespeare: one that places experience, in particular the flow of experience, at the centre of his work. In a nutshell, I suggest that Shakespeare apprehends the world in terms of change, flux, and ongoingness, and that the ceaseless flow of experience constitutes a kind of ultimate category of his art.
