Shakespeare in a Divided America Book Reviews

AUTHOR
James Shapiro
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
192

Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro Book Summary

One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year • A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • A New York Times Notable Book

A timely exploration of what Shakespeare’s plays reveal about our divided land.

“In this sprightly and enthralling book . . . Shapiro amply demonstrates [that] for Americans the politics of Shakespeare are not confined to the public realm, but have enormous relevance in the sphere of private life.” —The Guardian (London)

The plays of William Shakespeare are rare common ground in the United States. For well over two centuries, Americans of all stripes—presidents and activists, soldiers and writers, conservatives and liberals alike—have turned to Shakespeare’s works to explore the nation’s fault lines. In a narrative arching from Revolutionary times to the present day, leading scholar James Shapiro traces the unparalleled role of Shakespeare’s four-hundred-year-old tragedies and comedies in illuminating the many concerns on which American identity has turned. 

From Abraham Lincoln’s and his assassin, John Wilkes Booth’s, competing Shakespeare obsessions to the 2017 controversy over the staging of Julius Caesar in Central Park, in which a Trump-like leader is assassinated, Shakespeare in a Divided America reveals how no writer has been more embraced, more weaponized, or has shed more light on the hot-button issues in our history.

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Book Name Shakespeare in a Divided America
Genre U.S. History
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Language English
E-Book Size 15.33 MB

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Summary of Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro

The Shakespeare in a Divided America book written by James Shapiro was published on 10 March 2020, Tuesday in the U.S. History category. A total of 192 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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