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By City A.M. Comment Desk City A.M.’s weekly feature takes the fiercest water-cooler debates and pits two candidates head to head before delivering The Judge’s ultimate verdict. The Debate: Is Shakespeare elitist?Yes: I studied English Literature, and am a theatre critic, and still much of Shakespearian language goes over my head“Don’t forget Shakespeare was common as muck when it was written, performed for the masses,” argue The Bard’s smug stans. Full disclosure: I wasn’t there so I can’t be fully sure, and thank goodness for that: I probably would’ve died of consumption after a particularly…

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