Shakespeare, Bush, Iraq

Of Shakespeare, Iraq and Afghanistan

   Swaraaj Chauhan

“Step aside, I’ll show thee a president”: George W as Henry V? 

   Scott Newstrom

Political commentators have been claiming Dubya as a modern-day Prince Hal since the 1990s, eager to ascribe a kingly divine right to a ruler who, from his assumption of the throne to his current crusade, lacks justification.

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