{"product_id":"shakespeare-in-a-divided-america","title":"Shakespeare in a Divided America - What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e10 Best Books of the Year \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e • \u003c\/b\u003eA \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist \u003cb\u003e• \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA timely exploration of what Shakespeare’s plays reveal about our divided land.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From Abraham Lincoln’s and his assassin, John Wilkes Booth’s, competing Shakespeare obsessions to the 2017 controversy over the staging of \u003ci\u003eJulius Caesar\u003c\/i\u003e in Central Park, in which a Trump-like leader is assassinated, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare in a Divided America\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how no writer has been more embraced, more weaponized, or has shed more light on the hot-button issues in our history.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50973734371616,"sku":"9780525522317","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780525522317.jpg?v=1764191328","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/shakespeare-in-a-divided-america","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}