New Thinking: Shakespeare's Life Lessons
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The Ethical Power of Shakespeare
Our final ghost at the feast is doctor patrick gray, associate professor in english studies at the university of durham. We want to talk about what we can learn, how can we use shakespeare as a guide to modern life. So i've got some emales here from some anguished and entirely fictitious people, and they'd like some advice, please, in the form of a single play. And obviously the's something quite unashamedly an achronastic about that take on sh Shakespeare. But perhaps we should just put him through his paces a bit as a potential agony aunt for our times, and let's just see how far we can get.
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