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William Shakespeare the pocket essential [guide]

Shakespeare is undoubtedly the most famous playwright in the English language. Every day, all over the world his plays are performed in thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of productions. Quotations from his plays and poems have become part of the language, and are often uttered without people even knowing that they are, in fact, quoting Shakespeare. Shakespeare's characters are as famous as the titles of his plays. Jack Falstaff, Oberon, Macbeth, Henry V, Hamlet, Shylock, Romeo and Juliet to name but a few. They range across the entire gamut of human nature: from the misguided nob.

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