Shakespeare Reference in No Simple Highway

Peter Richardson’s No Simple Highway: A Cultural History Of The Grateful Dead contains one Shakespeare reference. Richardson writes, “The Beats were a band of brothers, the Pranksters a psychedelic tribe on the move” (p. 42). The phrase “band of brothers” comes from Henry V’s famous speech, in which he says “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.”

No Simple Highway: A Cultural History Of The Grateful Dead was published in 2014. The First St. Martin’s Griffin Edition was published in December 2015. I bought my paperback copy in 2019.