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Germaine Greer
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 11:00 am

Iconic feminist Germaine Greer joins us with her re-imagined life of Shakespeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway.

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Shakespeare in London
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 11:00 am

In 1909, an associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska was wading through legal documents in London when he came upon an incredible prize: a deposition, in long hand, about a messy family dispute, signed by one William Shakespeare more than 400 years ago.
It was the key to an era, and William Shakespeare’s [...]

 
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