Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare
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Episode 1: Is Shakespeare American?
The year is 1849, and a riot at a Shakespearean theater has left dozens of people dead. But as it always is with the Bard, there's more here than meets the eye. Why did some people think Shakespeare was important enough to die for? How did the work of one man writing in Victorian England capture the tensions brewing in a newly independent America? And who, if anyone, is Shakespeare really for? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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