Digressions of a Modern Kind

shakespeare is to faulkner is to roth

it works out like this:

Hamlet=Sound and the Fury=Portnoy’s Complaint

King Lear=Absolam, Absalom=American Pastoral

Macbeth=Requiem for a Nun=Sabbath’s Theater

Othello=Light in August=The Human Stain

The Tempest=Wild Palms=The Anatomy Lesson

As You Like It=As I Lay Dying=The Counterlife

Your job: explain in a 3-27 page essay.

MLA format, please.