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Anthony Trollope's lady Anna and Shakespeare's Othello.

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From: Victorian Newsletter
Date: 20060922
Author:Hunt, Maurice

Anthony Trollope, indefatigable Victorian novelist, found time to read and annotate 257 early modern English plays, especially Ben Jonson's and Shakespeare's (Harvey 256; Epperly Notes; Hall 415-18). "It has been said that no English novel can be written without Shakespearian allusions," Ruth apRoberts has noted; "but in Trollope they are legion," she concludes (77). In his Autobiography (1883), Trollope confesses, "I have found my greatest pleasure in our oId English dramatists,--not from any excessive love of their work ... but from curiosity in searching their plots and ...

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