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Playwright and poet who turned rhetoric, theatre, and social observation into a shared language.

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His works move between court and public playhouse, learned source and popular form. The First Folio of 1623 preserved plays that might otherwise have vanished.

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His works move between court and public playhouse, learned source and popular form. The First Folio of 1623 preserved plays that might otherwise have vanished.

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