Readers reply: What if Shakespeare was dropped in modern-day London?
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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers' questions ponders the hypothetical reactions of eminent historical personages to today's Trafalgar Square
This week's question: which are more like life, novels or films?
If William Shakespeare - or Florence Nightingale, or Attila the Hun, or Julius Caesar, or Jane Austen, or Pocahontas - was dropped in Trafalgar Square, London, what would they find most unusual? And how would we explain it to them? Giles, Suffolk
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