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Question 38

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Listen to the recording: It is a sobering realization that we possess the texts of Shakespeare's plays largely through a stroke of fortune. In the Elizabethan era, play scripts were viewed as disposable tools for the stage, rather than enduring literature. Shakespeare himself made no attempt to publish his dramatic works. It was left to two of his colleagues to assemble the First Folio seven years after he died. Had they not undertaken this monumental task, eighteen of the plays, including Macbeth, would simply have ...
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