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From the author of 1599, a fresh perspective on the history of the United States - and a timely reminder of Shakespeare''s indelible influence. A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK Shakespeare''s position as England''s national poet is established and unquestionable. But as James Shapiro illuminates in this revelatory new history, Shakespeare has long held an essential place in American culture. Why, though, would a proudly independent republic embrace England''s greatest writer? Especially when his works enact so many of America''s darkest nightmares: interracial marriage, cross-dressing, same-sex love, tyranny, and assassination? Investigating a selection of defining moments in American history - drilling into issues of race, miscegenation, gender, patriotism and immigration; encountering Presidents, activists, writers and actors - Shapiro leads us to fascinating answers and uncovers rich and startling stories. But perhaps most pressingly, we learn how, in Trump''s America, the staging of his work has provoked threat
One of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year A New York Times Notable Book From leading scholar James Shapiro, a timely exploration of what Shakespeare's plays reveal about our divided land, from Revolutionary times to the present day The plays of William Shakespeare are rare common ground i
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In this remarkable book, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America , explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays. For more than two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one doubted that he had written h
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