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All the world's a stage; William Shakespeare.(Book Review)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 20051105
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE has been sliced this way and that--biographically, literarily, culturally, theatrically and historically. Now James Shapiro, professor of English at Columbia University, has found a new and richly yielding angle.

1599 was the year in which the Globe was built, the theatre for which "Henry V" was completed, the year that "Julius Caesar" and "As You Like It" were written, and (possibly) the first draft of "Hamlet". It was also a year of nasty politics, state censorship and book burning. The ageing Elizabeth I was an embattled, heirless monarch, under threat ...

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