"This book is a little gem: less than 44,000 words in length, it is packed with detailed research on a fascinating and neglected area of Shakespeare Studies." - Geoff Ridden, *The Shakespeare Newsletter* "One of the most useful and entertaining books I have ever read on Shakespeare's theatrical history." - Prof. Grace Tiffany, Western Michigan University "Who owns Shakespeare? Most of us would say we all do but, in 1937, NBC and CBS fought it out as to the rights to argue that Shakespeare was their domain. Michael P. Jensen has brought back to life this extraordinary and almost completely forgotten Battle for the Bard on the radio with superb research and an engaging style that takes us right into the heart of the firstmass medium and its astonishing popularity in the 1930s as well as the networks' competing claims for the cultural high ground of owning Shakespeare. More than simply a study of Shakespeare on radio, this study speaks of the ways in which U.S. mass-media, then and now, negotiate with prestige culture." - Prof. Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame