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Stephen Greenblatt famously begins his study of Shakespeare’s drama by observing, ‘I began with the desire to speak with the dead’.1 By the end of his first chapter he has expanded on this:
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Brown, I. (2016). History, Mythology, and ‘Re-Presentation’ of Events. In: History as Theatrical Metaphor. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47336-3_2
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