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Shakespeare gets the starring role in cultural celebration alongside Olympics by Vanessa Thorpe

Experts ask if the Bard is Britain's only exportable brand as leading organisations recruit playwright for GamesThis country may be the birthplace of Chaucer, Milton, Austen, the Brontë sisters and Dickens, but Britain has only one dominant calling card on the global cultural scene: William Shakespeare. It is now clear that the Bard and his works will loom large in the British arts festival that is planned to run …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PM on May 28, 2011

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