9 Responses to “Charles Darwin on Shakespeare”

1. 
   Katrin Hahnemann on November 3, 2008 @ 5:20 am

   Where can I find this picture of Darwin?
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   Emily on February 19, 2009 @ 4:35 am

   That’s awesome! I’m distantly related to him.
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   - on March 21, 2009 @ 9:52 pm

   Point with this quote seems to have been to indicate that Darwin had grewn old, not to find Shakespeare’s plays in itself were dull, on the contrary
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   Arnie Perlstein on March 23, 2009 @ 1:58 pm

   If you read Darwin’s quote in context, he’s lamenting that his aesthetic joy in many areas of art has atrophied as a result of the hypertrophy of his analytic intellect. So you are right, he is not in any way suggesting any sort of dullness inherent in Shakespeare’s plays themselves.
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   sabrina on May 6, 2009 @ 9:08 am

   eu queria saber a histíoria da bibliografia dele e da histópri da fauna
6. 
   Lewy on August 3, 2009 @ 11:10 pm

   it may well be dull but if you want to win university challenge you need to know the content of every breath billy bob exhaled
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   SAHER on November 16, 2009 @ 7:14 pm

   ME 2 PAL
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   mike on January 23, 2010 @ 5:30 pm

   i find it “intolerably conceited” the way that people write how “he didnt mean it like that” etc “in context it meant ….” sorry you know this how? amazing. Without evidence to the contrary we should say as we see. after all thats what the good man did nd underpins humanism … have you ever read shakespeare? Im well read and agree its all a bit dull.
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   Eric on April 25, 2010 @ 1:34 pm

   I must agree with mike. and emily, if what darwin said is true, and i believe it is, we are all distantly related to him.