“Read by almost everyone at school, staged in theaters across the land, and long valued by conservatives as highly as liberals, Shakespeare’s plays remain common ground, one of the few places where Americans can meet and air their disparate views.” This book begins with a discussion of a Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar not long after the 2016 election. That play, like most of Shakespeare’s plays, is decidedly ambiguous in engaging in moral questions, raising them, and often providing more than one […]
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Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future by James Shapiro