November 25, 2008 - 12:45am
Review
- Shakespeare
A Life in Seven Chapters
by Edward S.
Brubaker
Franklin & Marshall College, 2008
Does anyone know
the nature of genius? Why is it or how is it that some people produce
imaginative works of arts and sciences that so far outshine the ordinary that we
are in awe as we stand before their works? Are these geniuses of another species
than the rest of us? Are they somehow blessed by the gods? What ingredients are
missing in those non-geniuses who end up reading about the real geniuses instead
of producing outstanding and original works in the arts and sciences?
We have all heard
that Einstein failed math as a student. And that Shakespeare was a poor kid with
little or no education from hick town Stratford. Right?
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