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Shakespeare
William Shakespeare, playwright whose works are cited as literary touchstones.
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First appearance: heretics
Shakespeare shows up with force in XV: On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Mentioned alongside Byron as an example of a writer whose enormous imbecilities contrast with the feeble limitations of modern wits.
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In XV: On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set: Mentioned alongside Byron as an example of a writer whose enormous imbecilities contrast with the feeble limitations of modern wits. Later, in XVII: On the Wit of Whistler:…
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