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177. Angus Fletcher — 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
The Michael Shermer Show
Shakespeare's Plays
Shakespeare's early plays are not very good by the standard of his later plays. And what we got, what we see now is the finished version. We didn't see the 200 modifications and edits along the way. There is actually a kind of archaeology in which you learn from play to play. He gets this idea of innovation directly from this gy a marlow, who got it from machiavelli. Prior to that, the church had condemned innovation as what eve had done in eden. That's what satan you know, everything good has already been invented by god. But machiavelli says, no inovation is possible the in of atri, you know
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