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  • Furness's Merchant of Venice
    November 1888 Issue
  • College Students Deserve to Know What Degrees Will Pay
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    In the New Yorker, Rebecca Mead blasts the idea that audiences should crave familiar art. In fact, relatability is practically the God particle of theater, and it has been for a long time.

    Derek ThompsonAugust 1, 2014
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    Phoebe Lou AdamsJanuary 1969 Issue
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    James Russell LowellDecember 1891 Issue
  • Year of the Prince
    Matthew GurewitschJanuary 1992 Issue
  • Recent Shakespearean Literature
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