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Word: bardsmanship (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bardsmanship is a game with no losers. As the new, computerized Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare proves, every critic and defender of the Nixon Administration can find barbs and shields in the blank verse. The playwright has some thing for everyone: politics and religion, sin and redemption-if it is in the human condition, it is in the Shakespearean canon. Most of the year, Shakespeare resides quietly in the volumes of his work. But each summer he thunders and chuckles in festivals from the Spokane Expo to Central Park. For those sun-flooded weeks, the Swan of Avon returns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Contemporary Bard | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

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