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The Consolations Of Being Right

A. L. Rowse The reception of my work on Shakespeare is an interesting story in itself, and one that is symptomatic of our time, not only of its li terary life, but of academic......

. .. If It Is Something About The Elizabethan Age,

you would do well to ask me; and you would be a fool to contradict me... talking to. It is only in a society such as ours, today that it would be necessary. This leads me to a......