War, migration and revenge: Shakespeare is the bard of today's world | Andrew Dickson by Andrew Dickson

From Hamlet in Syrian refugee camps to Macbeth in Kolkata, the plays have a resonance far beyond middle EnglandIt is impossible to look at Sarah Lee's photographs of actors from the Globe theatre in London playing Hamlet at the UNHCR Zaatari camp near the Jordanian border and not feel moved. Ophelia subsides into madness, captured by the cameraphone of a Syrian refugee; Old Hamlet and another cast member squint throu…

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