William Shakespeare was one of a kind. He wrote hugely popular works during his lifetime, had an insane work ethic and a stupendous entreprneurial streak.
Nowadays, these attributes show up in an unlikely, but fitting counterpart… Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
NOTES | Media mentioned:
- The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A. C. Grayling
- 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
- All Is True (Director: Kenneth Branagh). 2019
- Skyscraper (Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber). 2018
- Dwayne Johnson’s Instagram
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