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The Book of Twelfth Night: A Work of Unfinished Potential

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Wayne Myers’s The Book of “Twelfth Night, or What You Will”: Musings on Shakespeare’s Most Wonderful (and Erotic) Play...
 
 
James Shapiro on Shakespeare at the Turn of Centuries and Cultures

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James Shapiro opens his narrative with the close-up, confidential tone of a detective novel. In his first paragraph he...
 
 
Shakespeare 101, and a Pleasant Read as Well

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Stanley Wells is one of the most eminent and erudite of Shakespearean scholars, and while there are many who...
 
 
Proving Shakespeare's Authorship Instead of Disproving Other Candidates

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Unfortunately the subtitle to Scott McCrea's The Case for Shakespeare: The End of the Authorship is both inaccurate and...
 
 
Shakespeare Bites Back with a Vengeance

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Professor Stanley Wells of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has had enough. A highly regarded, well-published, not entirely uncontroversial scholar...
 
 
Shakespeare Thefts is Stealing the Spotlight

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Eric Rasmussen is Folio Hunter, but he's better known as co-editor of the Royal Shakespeare edition of the Complete...
 
 
Nicholl's Dodgy Lodger

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I never fail to be impressed by popular writing on Shakespeare’s life. Authors manage to squeeze three hundred pages...
 
 
An Investigation Into Forgery, Codes, and Misreadings of Early Modern History

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A year before he retired from the Supreme Court in 2010, John Paul Stevens told the Wall Street Journal...
 
 
In the Christmas Stocking (Part II): Judi Dench

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Judi Dench’s account of her life in And Furthermore makes no attempt to hash out complex issues, thankfully; she,...
 
 
In the Christmas Stocking (Part I): Bill Bryson

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Santa, habited no doubt in Elizabethan garb, managed to stuff his way down the (nonexistent) chimney this Christmas to...
 
 
 
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