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Moreover, the dramatist himself features in ‘Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again’, from 1966’s Blonde on Blonde: Well, Shakespeare, he’s in the alley With his pointed shoes and his bells However, nothing of significant import can be read into this. Shakespeare, dressed much like one of the court jesters from his plays, appears as just yet another persona to join a whole range of cultural and historical names that populate the phantasmagoria of Dylan’s mid-sixties lyrics: Ma Rainey, Einstein, Robin Hood, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and so on. Nonetheless, along with other interview and private comments, it does show that the Bard was on his mind.
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