How to Read and Understand Shakespeare

How to Read and Understand Shakespeare

Listening Length: 12 hours and 6 minutes

Shakespeare's works are among the greatest of humanity's cultural expressions and, as such, demand to be experienced and understood.

But, simply put, Shakespeare…

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