William Shakespeare was an English playwright, actor, and poet, often considered one of the greatest writers to work in the English language. Nietzsche upholds Shakespeare as a positive example of the “historical sense,” as he believes that Shakespeare’s creativity stemmed directly from the impurity and artificiality of 16th-century English society and its relationship to history.
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7. Our Virtues
...the historical sense is always ignoble and impure, but it too creates great individuals, like Shakespeare. All the same, it is incompatible with the full development of any one culture or...
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