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A review by balletbookworm
Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future by James Shapiro
4.0
yay, for clinic reading between subjects because that is almost the only thing keeping me reading right now (thanks brain)
This was a really good set of essays/analysis about how Shakespeare was viewed, interpreted, and presented at other "divided" times in America (like the portrayal of Othello and interracial marriages/relationships in pre-Civil War America, or Taming of the Shrew in post-WWII America and it's conversion into the musical Kiss Me, Kate). Greenblatt is nicely readable.
This was a really good set of essays/analysis about how Shakespeare was viewed, interpreted, and presented at other "divided" times in America (like the portrayal of Othello and interracial marriages/relationships in pre-Civil War America, or Taming of the Shrew in post-WWII America and it's conversion into the musical Kiss Me, Kate). Greenblatt is nicely readable.