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Article: All the world's a Shakespeare stage; The playwright's popularity soars as audiences flock to summer festivals, and the Royal Shakespeare Company plans a marathon.(FEATURES)(ARTS)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- August 12, 2005
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Byline: Iris Fanger Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
LENOX, MASS. -- Johnny Damon and Nomar Garciaparra are not the only boys of summer. For vacationing theatergoers at Shakespeare festivals around the United States, the lineup includes Romeo and Petruchio, Benedick and Othello.
Shakespeare may not attract the stadium-size throngs that visit ballparks, but the Elizabethan playwright's work continues to be celebrated in an ever-growing number of theaters, and audiences are on the rise.
Despite hand-wringing by educators over a lack of interest in the spoken word among a generation raised on electronic entertainment, Shakespeare's ...