Shakespeare's world of words

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Was Shakespeare really the original genius he has appeared to be since the 18th century, a poet whose words came from nature itself? The contributors to this volume propose that Shakespeare was not...

Was Shakespeare really the original genius he has appeared to be since the 18th century, a poet whose words came from nature itself? The contributors to this volume propose that Shakespeare was not the poet of nature, but rather that he is a genius of rewriting and re-creation, someone able to generate a new language and new ways of seeing the world by orchestrating existing social and literary vocabularies.

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