Shakespeare and the Struggle for Power
Making Make-Believe Real: Politics as Theater in Shakespeare’s Time
by Garry Wills
March 19, 2015 issue
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Stanley Wells is Honorary President of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. His two new books, Great Shakespeare Actors: From Burbage to Branagh and William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction, are to be published in June and September of this year. (March 2015)
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