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To be Trump, or not: what Shakespeare tells us about the last five years

by David Smith In Washington

To the author Jeffrey Wilson, the former president is Caesar, Lear, Bottom and more, all rolled into one The time is out of joint. When lost for words, as many have been over the past five years, William Shakespeare is a useful go-to guy. His plays have helped us make sense of plague, political upheaval and a mad monarch, delivering soliloquies by tweet. "While maintaining his career as the most-produced playwright i…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 9:18am on February 6, 2021