The unexpected at all times, and I'm sure that applies to politics as well as it does to Shakespeare.

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Fisher told me that her current boyfriend has read the complete works of Shakespeare aloud to her in bed, as well as some Dickens and Ibsen.

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Looking at the Rembrandt as well as at a handful of society ladies in the guise of dramatic characters (Shakespeare's Cleopatra, Miranda, Viola) makes one consider the nature of selfhood.

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As well as saying his name, he also recites a series of numbers and lines from several Shakespeare plays.

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