Tina Benko as Melania Trump in the role of Caesar's wife, Calpurnia, and Gregg Henry as President Donald Trump in the role of Julius Caesar in The Public Theater's 2017 production of Julius Caesar.

'Shakespeare in a Divided America'

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Mar 13, 2020

English and comparative literature professor at Columbia University, James Shapiro, discusses his new book, Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future.

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