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This volume assembles a selection from the many papers delivered at the Sixth World Shakespeare Congress. Four plenary lectures are printed, including that of Jane Smiley on the creation of A Thousand Acres, her award-winning novel derived with King Lear. Twenty-two papers by well-known scholars also offer a wide range of responses to Shakespeare's art and international assessment of his presence in the world at the end of the twentieth century.

Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century: The

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    A Hardback by Jonathan Bate, Jill Levenson, Dieter Mehl

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      Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
      Publication Date: 01/01/1999
      ISBN13: 9781611491791, 978-1611491791
      ISBN10: 1611491797

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      Book Synopsis
      This volume assembles a selection from the many papers delivered at the Sixth World Shakespeare Congress. Four plenary lectures are printed, including that of Jane Smiley on the creation of A Thousand Acres, her award-winning novel derived with King Lear. Twenty-two papers by well-known scholars also offer a wide range of responses to Shakespeare's art and international assessment of his presence in the world at the end of the twentieth century.

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