Shakespeare in a Divided America

Shakespeare in a Divided America
JAMES SHAPIRO, FABER, RRP£20
The Shakespeare scholar explores how the Bard has been something of a lightning rod for issues of gender, race, immigration and class warfare in the US over the past two centuries. Filled with eye-popping controversies, scrupulously researched, Shapiro’s is — as the FT reviewer put it — “a riveting story, nimbly told”.