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[kidnamedgoat]

 I've been catching up on past issues of The New Yorker that piled up over the course of the semester, and I read today an article about the effect of technology on history, which is a topic for which my feelings can be sumarized with a "whatever," but a stream of consciousness type thing was going on in the back of my head while reading it that

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[retro_radiostar]

If Shakespeare hadn't written Hamlet, would we be studying Paradise Lost with just as much reverence? Or anything, for that matter? Or would we be studying something entirely else?

[kidnamedgoat]

Do you mean if Shakespeare hadn't written Hamlet, would other works rank as highly? Or do you mean if each work had a different author, would it be as valued. I think yes on both accounts.