How was Shakespeare remembered 300 years after his death?
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2016 · Education
To mark the 1916 tercentenary of Shakespeare’s death Israel Gollancz, literary scholar and chair of English language and literature at King's College, commissioned A Book of Homage to Shakespeare. Gordon McMullan looks at the range of contributions included from all over the globe, and what they can tell us about the attitudes to Shakespeare at the time. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/9780198769699 Gordon McMullan is Professor of English at King's College London and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre. He is a critic and an editor with a focus on Shakespeare and early modern drama. He is a general editor of the Arden Early Modern Drama series and author of Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing: Authorship in the Proximity of Death. © Oxford University Press
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