All good stuff above, guys! Thanks bounty, Danik, hellsapoppin! So we've got Starbuck and Mocha Dick. When are we going to come across somebody named...
That right there is the main criticism of the book — too much detail about stuff that doesn't matter. A close second is — the prose is way overblown....
As Professor Julia Kristeva noted, R&J, as it has come down to us, was most likely written in late 1596 shortly after the loss of the author's son. ...