The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.1972  Friday, 12 November 1999.

From:           Robert Peters <
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Date:           Thursday, 11 Nov 1999 15:43:48 +0100
Subject:        Who is William Shakespeare and how do I start reading him?

Cheers to everybody!

This is a question (or rather a pack of questions) from a German
highschool teacher.

Imagine a friendly, linguistically gifted pupil, aged 15 to 17, a
bookworm maybe, comes up to you and says: "Well, I