Shakespeare Again?

Four centuries and four decades after his birth, William Shakespeare not only remains the most compelling literary and cultural presence in our language but also attracts audiences and readers in the millions around the globe. Ben Jonson's eulogy in the First Folio—"He was not of an age, but for all time!"—has become prophecy rather than exaggeration, and Shakespeare's great competitor might have been astonished (and slightly chagrined) to find popular, professional, and scholarly interest in Shakespeare far more extensive today than it was in 1623.

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