William, David
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'My Shakespeare' is a program of words and music written and composed for and about Shakespeare. Elizabethan and Jacobean colleagues are called as cha
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racter witnesses. In between, famous contributors include Coleridge, Dickens, Tolstoy, Berlioz, Virginia Woolf, Robertson Davies, and many others. Matters addressed range from adaptations of King Lear with a happy ending to the founding of the Stratford Festival. The history of Shakespeare's reputation turns out to be a microcosm of the cultural history of four centuries.
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