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Article: Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland.(Review)
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- Shakespeare Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland. By Christopher Highley. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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