World Shakespeare Festival

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The World Shakespeare Festival was a programme of events about William Shakespeare and his work. They took place mostly in London and Stratford-upon-Avon as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad which accompanied the Olympic Games. It was produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company and sponsored by the Arts Council, BP and Lottery with about 60 participating organisations including the BBC, British Museum, National Theatre and Shakespeare's Globe.

==References==

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{{citation |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-15240406 | date=10 October 2011 |title=World Shakespeare Festival tickets go on public sale |publisher=BBC}}

{{citation |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/london-2012-festival/8915818/London-2012-Festival-Top-10-guide-br3.-The-World-Shakespeare-Festival.html |title=The World Shakespeare Festival |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |author=Neil MacGregor |date=29 Nov 2011}}

{{citation |title=Reviewing Shakespeare: Journalism and Performance from the Eighteenth Century to the Present |pages=177–182 |chapter=The World Shakespeare Festival 2012 |author=Paul Prescott |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2013 |isbn=9781107470255}}

{{citation |title=A Year of Shakespeare: Re-living the World Shakespeare Festival |author1=Paul Edmondson |author2=Paul Prescott |author3=Erin Sullivan |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |year=2015 |isbn=9781474246279}}

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