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Hello in Shakespeare's play at the tempest the character Miranda declares when confronted by a group of young men of whom on her isolated

island she has never seen the like, oh wonder how many

godly creatures are there here, how beauteous mankind is, oh brave new world

that has such people in it.

It's perhaps the only line of Shakespeare to be made famous by someone else,

for Brave New World isn't generally associated with Prospero's Island of Sprites and Mayhem, Magic and Wondrous noises,

but with Aldous Huxley's dystopia, a Gugenics, Sommer, and Zero Gravity Tennis.

A world incidentally upon which literary references to Shakespeare, would be entirely lost.

Brave New World is a lurid satirical prophecy in which the hopes and fears of the 1920s and 1930s are writ large.

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