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"I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me"

- Stephen Greenblatt

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This quote is written / told by Stephen Greenblatt somewhere between November 7, 1943 and today. He/she was a famous Critic from USA. The author also have 19 other quotes.

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