# William Shakespeare — Beyond Good and Evil character guide

> William Shakespeare in Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Shakespeare

**First appearance:** 0002-i-prejudices-of-philosophers

## Who they are

English playwright, referenced as a supreme creative force.

## In the story

### [The Historical Sense](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_good_and_evil_se/chapters/224)

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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