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Internationally Renowned Shakespeare Scholar Ann Cook Calhoun Dies in Nashville
by Jeffrey Ellis - Aug 29, 2017

Ann Cook Calhoun, an internationally renowned Shakespeare scholar and a powerful force for making the Bard's plays accessible to everyone, died August 13 in Nashville after a short illness. She was 82. Calhoun was a professor of English, emerita, at Vanderbilt University who held leadership roles in Shakespeare organizations around the world.