Farrell, Thomas2020-03-232020-03-232020-03This version was not previously published.https://hdl.handle.net/11299/212146See the abstract above.In my 3,125-word review essay "James Shapiro's 2020 Book about Shakespeare in America and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I discuss the American Shakespeare specialist James Shapiro's book Shakespeare in a Divided America:: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future, and I connect certain points that Shapiro makes with certain points that the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian Walter J. Ong makes in various publications.enShakespeare, James Shapiro, Walter J. Ong, Oskar Eustis, Julius Caesar, Donald Trump, American Revolution, American Republic, Roman Republic, Roman EmpireScholarly Text or Essay