As one of his contemporaries, Ben Jonson, said: "Shakespeare is not of an age, but for all time. ""

同时代的剧作家本·琼森曾说，“莎士比亚超越了时代，他将永世不朽。”

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This new way of looking at the playwright's career - from treading the boards to the board room - also shows how different Shakespeare was from his contemporaries, says Dr van Es.

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To help out, Dominic Dromgoole, the new director of Shakespeare's Globe, in London, which has hitherto been devoted exclusively to the Bard and his contemporaries, is planning to stage two brand new plays this year out of its total of six.

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