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Schama Chameleon
The historian has a brief turn at cabaret to help us brush up our Shakespeare
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- Russell T Davies on wanting to adapt A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Was it a member of the aristocracy that penned Shakespeare's plays?
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on how the character Hamlet surprised them
- A future President tells Americans the dollar has collapsed in Lionel Shriver's novel
- Valeria Luiselli recalls her first Shakespeare drama performance
- Peter Carey: ‘Information and art are different things’
- 'Shakespeare didn't sound like Prince Charles'
- James Shapiro discusses Shakespeare's productivity
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