Company man.(Age of Shakespeare)(Book Review)

From: The Nation | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

THE AGE OF SHAKESPEARE. By Frank Kermode. Modern Library. 214 pp. $21.95.

The name Shakespeare in Britain is rather like the names Ford, Disney and Rockefeller in the United States. He is less an individual than an institution, less an artist than an apparatus. Shakespeare is a precious national treasure akin to Stonehenge or North Sea oil. He is to be ranked alongside King Arthur, Monty Python and the crown jewels as part of the nation's cherished mythology. In some quarters, indeed, he is almost as well-known as Billy Connolly. That right-wing troublemaker Prince Charles ...

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