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Comment by btilly

The first thing that I did was zoomed out, surely Shakespeare wrote about something in the New World?

No. It is amazing how small his world was. He was born and grew to adulthood, in the world where Spanish dominance kept England from attempting to explore the world. While Jamestown was settled before he died, he never wrote about it.

I've updated my understanding of how (un)aware people were in this era of the larger world. I have no idea why I would have ever expected otherwise.

parent btilly 5 months ago

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