‘The discovery of America had much to do with the revival of English learning and literature […] Columbus, Cabot, Drake, Raleigh, and – America, made possible Shakespeare. They lifted the horizon of the human mind no less than of the seas, and widened the intellectual view of man to a larger world […] A “new world,” with its revelations, its marvels, its riches, its promises and possibilities, helped to Shakespearize English thought and language.’
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