The location of his educational project in a garden was the key to this.
Along with Montaigne, the other surprising omission from Harrison’s essay is Shakespeare. While his contemporaries pressed for preferment in the fevered world of the Jacobean court, and frequently got themselves into trouble for meddling with politics, Shakespeare kept his counsel and retired — possibly a great deal earlier than most biographers imagine — to his garden at New Place in Stratford-upon-Avon. Harrison’s meditations have confirmed me in my view that if we must attach a philosophical stance to Shakespeare, then it should be Epicureanism. He was the greatest ‘militant idiot’ of them all.
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