A Shakepearean Take on the Phone-Hacking Scandal
Droeshout engraving of Shakespeare
Lisa Mullins talks with Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC., about whether there are Shakespearean dimensions to the scandal that has emerged surrounding Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World.
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