Salman Rushdie: how Cervantes and Shakespeare wrote the modern literary rule book
It is 400 years since Shakespeare and Cervantes died. Together, they defy boundaries of time, and the conventions that keep street life separate from fantasy.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
It is 400 years since Shakespeare and Cervantes died. Together, they defy boundaries of time, and the conventions that keep street life separate from fantasy.
By Salman Rushdie