William Shakespeare’s works are not short of insight on the perils of power and “vaulting ambition”. Some are dramatically relevant to this era of war and ceaseless tension, from Richard III to Julius Caesar and King Lear.
But Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer, reflecting on the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s First Folio this week, might have chosen a better example than to cite the words of a treasonous assassin whose own demise is hurtling into view.
