
Macbeth
The Classical Mind
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The Importance of Reading English Language Poems
There is a sort of amateur theory out there that Shakespeare helped translate the King James Bible. We're talking about the text that probably formed the English language as we speak it now more than basically anything else. So I think that anyone who's serious about reading English literature and wants to understand our terms of phrase that are sort of our idioms so much of it is found in those three text.
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