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Penultimate part of Shakespear­ean play is beginning to move into vigorous campaigning (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

activism

'vigorous campaigning' is the definition.

'penultimate part of shakespearean play is beginning to move' is the wordplay.
'penultimate part of shakespearean play' becomes 'activ' (fourth of five acts in a Shakespeare play).
'beginning to' suggests taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'move' is 'm'.
'activ'+'is'+'m'='ACTIVISM'

'into' is the link.

(Other definitions for activism that I've seen before include "Policy of vigorous work as in politics" , "Political efforts" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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