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Why Shakespeare? -- Shakespeare is, indisputably, one of the two great bedrocks of Western civilization in English. (The other is the King James translation of the Bible.) Not only do Shakespeares plays themselves contain the finest writing of the past 450 years, but most of the best novels, plays, poetry, and films in the English language produced since Shakespeares death in 1616--from Jane Austen to Charles Dickens, from Ulysses to The Godfather--are heavily influenced by Shakespeares stories, characters, language, and themes...Shakespeare is not only creative in himself--he is the cause of creation in other writers. ~Ken Ludwig
Posted on: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 16:58:35 +0000

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