On episode 25 of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast, I chatted with Daniel Hannan, a writer, blogger and Conservative member of the British House of Lords. Our topic was Shakespeare. Why does everyone seem to think he’s speaking directly to them? How much about him do we know? Did he really “change everything”? What’s the ‘First Folio’? Why do the Japanese think he’s Japanese? Is some of his work too unbearable to watch? And does it matter if Polonius is cast as a woman?

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