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And What If We Leave God Out of It?
J. A. Macfarlane
J. A. Macfarlane
June 18, 2014
With Godless Shakespeare, Eric S. Mallin fills an important gap in Shakespeare criticism by examining the possibility of looking...
Let Us Sit Upon the Ground and Speculate About the Life of Shakespeare
J. A. Macfarlane
J. A. Macfarlane
January 21, 2013
In Shakespeare Revealed, René Weis offers a well-written, highly readable, consistent, and quite traditional biography of Shakespeare, based on...
A Voyage to Shakespeare's Everyday
J. A. Macfarlane
J. A. Macfarlane
January 09, 2013
In the steps of his highly successful A History of the World in 100 Objects, British Museum director Neil...
A Reminder that Shakespeare Is Not Always for All Time
J. A. Macfarlane
J. A. Macfarlane
January 09, 2013
In The Tainted Muse, critic and playwright Robert Brustein casts a look at what is for the modern reader...
Shakespeare at Home in Afghanistan
Archie Maddocks
Archie Maddocks
June 24, 2012
Experiential writing can sometimes fall into the trap of being written in a laconic, drawling manner. Often, the writing...
Shakespeare's Justice
J. A. Macfarlane
J. A. Macfarlane
February 14, 2012
In A Thousand Times More Fair, legal scholar Kenji Yoshino offers a superb example of how the reading of...
The Theatrical and the Operatic
J. A. Macfarlane
J. A. Macfarlane
February 14, 2012
No composer has more successfully set Shakespeare to music more often than Giuseppe Verdi, with his early, fascinating and...
The Book of Twelfth Night: A Work of Unfinished Potential
J. A. Macfarlane
J. A. Macfarlane
January 16, 2012
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
Michael Meigs
Michael Meigs
December 22, 2011
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
J. A. Macfarlane
J. A. Macfarlane
November 29, 2011
Stanley Wells is one of the most eminent and erudite of Shakespearean scholars, and while there are many who...
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