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Henry Rylands is a freelance journalist currently in his final year at the University of Manchester.  He writes mainly about the Arts, with his main interest being in film and contemporary television.

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As England plays host to the largest Shakespeare festival in history, are the Bard’s works wholly relevant in this modern age?, Arts

As England plays host to the largest Shakespeare festival in history, are the Bard’s works wholly relevant in this modern age?

Sex, lies and betrayal hardly seem unfamiliar to the morning headlines, yet can we really say that in constructing his plays around them, these themes were a pre-emptive suggestion from Shakespeare that our society (and lives) will forever be dominated by such things?

By | Arts, Notebook | Wednesday, 18 July 2012 at 4:00 am

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