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Ep 40 - Shakespeare's Tragedies

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The Importance of Analyzing the Dream of Shakespeare

Harold Goddard likens what we're doing today to dream analysis in a way and he says there are persons who think they have Explained dream when they have linked it to things They saw or did during the previous 24 hours. But the mystery of the dream and the reason it chose those particular fragments of experience our thousands of possible ones Lie not in the fragments themselves, but in the imagination of the dreamerThose who seek to throw light on Shakespeare By linking him with his day fall all too easily into this same Fallacy so let us not think that we've explained the dream that is Shakespeare. We can hope to approximate the mystery we can make some guesses as to what that force really is

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