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peare Company many years after his death.
6, Charles Flower invited Benson and his company to open that year's Shakespeare Festival at StratfordAvon. From then until 1919 Benson presented all but five of the annual Stratford seasons, having taken the
manager from 1888. The critic James Agate said that Benson's company "was the nursery of modern
pearean acting", and both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre have some of their
n his company and productions.
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