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    • January 6, 2024 at 5:27 AM
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    I would find that fascinating.

    Along those lines, I just listened to a podcast with Ben and David Crystal talking about their new book Everyday Shakespeare with lines for different days of the year

    David and Ben Crystal Share Shakespeare Quotations for Everyday Life | Folger Shakespeare Library
    Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare…
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    • January 6, 2024 at 5:49 AM
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    FYI...

    Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
    Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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    Of Mites and Motes: Shakespearean Readings of Epicurean Science
    Abstract. This chapter is devoted to the rediscovery of Lucretius in the early modern period. Even though Shakespeare had no access to writings by Epicurus, the
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    One Small Voice: Montaigne and Lucretius

    “Past fearing death”: Epicurean ethics in Measure for Measure
    As William Empson remarked in The Structure of Complex Words (1951), Measure for Measure has often been seen as “a Morality Play about the dialectic of Justice…
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    In Romeo and Juliet and in Hamlet, there are apparent traces of Epicurus' philosophy, but in King Lear, there are none obvious to me. Please let us know where to find the article after it has been published.

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    Shakespeare fanatic that I am, I am very happy to see your extended discussion of 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐭. I am now working on 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫 and the possibility that Shakespeare may have been an Epicurean. Wouldn't that be something! In Montaigne, also an Epicurean, Shakespeare read about Lucretius, atomic theory and all.

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    Shakespeare fanatic that I am, I am very happy to see your extended discussion of 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐭. I am now working on 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫 and the possibility that Shakespeare may have been an Epicurean. Wouldn't that be something! In Montaigne, also an Epicurean, Shakespeare read about Lucretius, atomic theory and all.

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