Angus Fletcher
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 8 Jul
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And so you just have this moment of Tamburlaine being like, I am the greatest.
And then he did a series of other plays that were like this, that were just incredibly, so they were themselves innovative and that they broke from the earlier stories that had been told, but they were focused around innovators.
And so Shakespeare looked at this, and Shakespeare, of course, being a terrible plagiarist early in his career, not having terribly many ideas of his own, said to himself, well, I'm going to steal this idea about being an innovator, and I'm going to write a play about someone who kind of breaks all the rules.
And that person he chose was Richard III.
And in order to be an innovator, what you essentially have to be is someone who makes new plots.
Because a plot is a plan.
You've got to be a plotter.
You've got to be a schemer.
And so Shakespeare had to inhabit the mind of this character, Richard III, as he overthrew the existing government.
And he came up with all these schemes to suppress the rebels who were rising against him.
And he summoned this kind of diabolical imagination to create a path through life
that no human had ever stepped before.
And in the process of writing this character, Shakespeare unlocked his own ability to be a plotter.
He essentially became Richard III.
He said to himself, wait a minute, I can do the same thing.
I can create a new story for myself.
I can create new stories for my audiences.
And so you see from that moment on, it's this radical shift in Shakespeare.
Some of those plays that he writes later, like Henry V, are essentially about innovators.
Henry V goes on to become the model, of course, of Die Hard and sort of all of these heroic stories that we now like to tell ourselves because Henry V is- Antiheroes.
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