
Paul Cantor: Shakespeare and Politics
Conversations with Bill Kristol
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Shakespeare and the Renaissance
Italy embodies the tension between religious, religion and politics that's so important as shakespeare's plays. He helped to revive rome in a way that has made it a permanent reference point in our culture ever since. After all, it's right there in our culture. We got h b o series on romcus. And i think sh Shakespeare didn't do this uniquely, but he helped to reviveRome in a ways that have been lasting for centuries.
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