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  <name><![CDATA[John  Reed]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[&lt;b&gt;ALL THE WORLD'S A GRAVE: A NEW PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Fall 2008 (PENGUIN/PLUME)&lt;/b&gt;  

   The literary trick of the year. —&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nypost.com/seven/07082008/gossip/pagesix/from_bard_to_verse_118962.htm&quot;&gt;New York Post&lt;/a&gt;
   I can't quite believe &quot;All The World's A Grave,&quot;: such an original idea.  —Ian McKellen
   This is the Frankenstein's monster of Shakespearean tragedy. It raises the Artistotelian emotions of pity and fear to a new level as the audience agonizes over the uncertainty of which catharsis John Reed's play is heading toward. —William S. Niederkorn
   I had just decided to name my new play “A Year Without Shakespeare,” to express my weariness with the recurring unimaginative return again and again to the Bard. Then I came upon John Reed’s NEW/old play, and I feel fired up! What a dramatic re-imagination is herein offered us! —Richard Foreman
   Reed caramelizes the Bard's plays into a great and terrifying world, the State in continual war.  &quot;All The World's A Grave&quot; is a dizzying feat of writing and scholarship.  —Lynne Tillman
   Is this man who wants to blow up the classic literary canon ... a menace, or a messiah? —&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/John_Reed_on_Orwell%2C_God%2C_self-destruction_and_the_future_of_writing&quot;&gt;Wikinews&lt;/a&gt; ]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Have mangled: Shakespeare, Orwell, Caroll and more.  ]]></influences>          
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[All the World's a Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[William Shakespeare]]></name>
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  <published>2008</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A Still Small Voice]]></title>
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  <published>2000</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Snowball's Chance]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Whole]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John  Reed]]></name>
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  <published>2005</published>  
  
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