13 outubro, 2008

Palavras lidas #59

... if William Shakespeare had not been born at Stratford-on-Avon on April 26 1564, the convergence of social and economic forces would have produced him elsewhere; and whether if Shakespeare had died in infancy, another mother in Stratford-on-Avon would have delivered a 'duplicate copy' of him?

in S. Hook, 'The Hero in History,' repr. in R. H. Nash, ed. Ideas of History, II (New York, 1969), 311.
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I am just glad he was born, didn't die in his infancy, and produced great work... is that too simple?

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