Beyond Good and Evil · Character
William Shakespeare
English playwright, referenced as a supreme creative force.
minor
Also known as Shakespeare
First appearance: i prejudices of philosophers
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Presented as a 'marvelous Spanish-Moorish-Saxon synthesis of taste' that moderns enjoy with secret confidence, despite its wild motleyness and proximity to the English populace.
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