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Paul Cantor is Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He has written extensively on Shakespeare (Shakespeare’s Rome, Hamlet, etc.), on romanticism (Creature and Creator), the media (Gilligan Unbound), and Austrian Economics (Literature and the Economics of Liberty). He has a Harvard B. A. and Ph. D. (1971), and is presently teaching Government 1087, “Shakespeare and Politics.”

Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on March 6, 2015.