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SHAKESPEARE'S VICTORIAN LEGACY: TEXT AS MONUMENT AND EMENDATION AS DESECRATION IN THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY

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George Yeats
George Yeats*
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Regent's College, London
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , September 2012 , pp. 469 - 486
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