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Has Shakespeare become the mascot of Brexit Britain?

27 April 2019

9:00 AM

27 April 2019

9:00 AM

The deployment of Shakespeare to describe Brexit is by now a cliché. It might take the form of a quotation, be borrowed in a headline, or involve the name of one of the better-known characters; it might turn up in that most hollow of adjectives, Shakespearean. It has two possible modes.

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