Myth of The Lone Genius - Dennis McCarthy

Dennis McCarthy is a writer, historian, and independent researcher who, in the process of tracing Hamlet’s origin, ended up unwinding the entire legend of Shakespeare. Digging deeper into the history of Shakespeare's plays alongside collaborators June Schlueter and Michael Blanding, McCarthy uncovered evidence that all but two of Shakespeare’s plays were written by Sir Thomas North, an English translator, lawyers, and justice of the peace. We dig into the evidence for the overlap between the two figures, unpack the myth of the lone genius, and seek to understand how the origin of ideas is driven by the sum total of the biogeographic connections that impinge on a given time and place.

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00:00 Go!
00:10:13 Of Politics and Plays
00:15:12 Are North and Shakespeare the same Person?
00:20:38 Myths of Lone Genius
00:25:24 Shifting Cultural Frames
00:34:43 An Idea is Fine, but a Theory is Too Much
00:39:57 How Many of the Plays are North's?
00:43:48 Biogeography & The Spread of Ideas
00:52:52 No True Origin Stories
01:02:44 How Much Did North Know?
01:12:30 Here Be Dragons
01:17:16 Artistic Explosions
01:24:30 Archetypal Tendencies
01:33:33 Convergent Evolution of Stories
01:40:34 Getting Published by Oxford
01:51:26 Does the Opposition Ever Chill?
01:54:51 Physics
02:11:26 The Source of Motivation
02:16:48 Close

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