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Article: THE DANGERS OF BARDOLATRY.(William Shakespeare's place in literature)
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- July 12, 1999
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IS THE END of the 20th century the Age of Shakespeare? Evidence for this proposition is not hard to provide. Hollywood now regularly crafts movies based on the Bard's plays and has even given us one, Shakespeare in Love, based on speculation about his life. Summer would not be complete in the English-speaking countries without Shakespeare festivals like the one in Ashland, Oregon. And a new generation is being force-fed large doses of his work. I suspect the current cohort of eighth-graders is as baffled by the complexities of Scottish dynastic politics and the heartbreak of adultery as my generation was.
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