Which of Shakespeare’s tragic heroes is Donald Trump?

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Shakespeare shouldn’t be relevant to 21st-century politics. His was an age of monarchy, ours one of democracy. Yet President Trump has repeatedly been compared to Shakespearean fools and tyrants: Falstaff, Richard III, Macbeth, Bottom, King Lear, Julius Caesar, Jack Cade. Trump’s monarchical politics...

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