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You may wish to sign up with Mark Van Doren, the great professor of English who lived from 1894 to 1972. In 1938, he wrote Shakespeare, which can be had in an edition from NYRB. The foreword is by ...

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Not even an accessible biography, at that ... His problem is that ‘life itself has become a naturalistic unreality, partly because of Shakespeare’s prevalence.’ But if Shakespeare’s consummate ...

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