VILNIUS - A rose by any other name was still a rose to William Shakespeare. But for the man behind a new literature-themed hotel, any name other than the Shakespeare Hotel is out of the question.Saulius Arvasevicius, who plans to open the new Vilnius hotel later this year, is fighting against Lithuania's language commission, which says the English title is against the country's language law.The hotel is being designed in a literary motif, with bookshelves in the lobbies and quotes from famous authors like Tolstoy, Rousseau and Lithuanian literary giant Maironis gracing the walls of the room...
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