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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