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If The Romantics on Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Shakespeare, Literary Criticism and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Jonathan Bate, William Shakespeare, harrison, Alan Palmer, and others.