Shakespeare: Between Socrates and Existentialism -- That history is at least often written from a point of view -- and that the Nazis and the Communists developed different accounts, not only of the past, but of the whole development from ancient Greece to modern times -- is now a commonplace. But that a warped and tendentious view of the present age and its relation to the past is current in our midst and more indebted to Christianity than to any political ideology requires showing.