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Why was Shakespeare enchanted by the supernatural?
Bard expert Jonathan Bate explains why the magical world appears in Shakespeare's plays.
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- James Shapiro discusses Shakespeare's productivity
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- Peter Carey: A reading from Amnesia
- What Shakespeare and today's soap opera writers have in common
- Fay Weldon reads an extract from her new novel Before the War
- Why are Germans more welcoming to migrants?
- Salman Rushdie on the private act of writing a book
- David Mitchell: 'The best of the Star Treks are art'
- Maxine Peake on working with choreographer Arlene Phillips
- Salman Rushdie: "Shakespeare mashes up form"
- Schama Chameleon
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