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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20040324
Author:Hedy Weiss

There's a comedy ("The Merry Wives of Windsor"), a morality play ("Measure for Measure") and a tragedy ("Romeo and Juliet") on tap next season at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier.

There also will be a touch of the Irish, as the Dublin-based Abbey Theatre, the national theater of Ireland that is now celebrating its 100th anniversary, pays a visit to Chicago with its production of J.M. Synge's 1907 classic "The Playboy of the Western World."

Artistic director Barbara Gaines will stage both "The Merry Wives" (Sept. 3-Nov. 21, 2004), a zesty farce that feeds on English life in the ...

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