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Product Description: The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations...read more

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Marcelle from France, Tirtzah from England, and other teenage girls from all over the world come to Jerusalem for a year of study at an experimental Jewish school.