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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/10/2023
Actually, All of Shakespeare's Plays are About Race
by Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
A new collection of essays argues that Shakespeare's works helped Renaissance Europeans to invent the category of "whiteness," and for later generations to refine and contest its meaning.
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SOURCE: TIME
4/22/2022
The Roots of the Story of "The Northman"
Neil Price describes the work of being a historical consultant on the new Icelandic epic, including the story's common roots with "Hamlet" and the realities of Viking combat.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/14/2020
Shakespeare Wrote His Best Works During a Plague
by Daniel Pollack-Peltzner
The most heartening lesson from Shakespeare’s era is that the playhouses will likely survive and reopen, again and again. What plays to perform when they do?
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11/21/19
England’s Richard III as Murderous, Royal Thug
by Bruce Chadwick
William Shakespeare’s bone-chilling play Richard III portrays England’s deformed monarch as a murderous thug, one of the great villains of world history.
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10/24/19
1600s Verona: Romeo, Juliet, and A Romantic Tragedy for the Ages
by Bruce Chadwick
This Romeo and Juliet is a triumph.
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7/25/19
Can You Ever Tame the Shrew? Is She Really the Shrew?
by Bruce Chadwick
This Taming of the Shrew is a madcap romp through history, literature and the woods. It is a lot of fun.
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7/16/19
Delightful but Dizzying Romp as the 17th Century Meets the 1950s
by Bruce Chadwick
There is merriment galore in this new production of William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night, that just opened at the Shakespeare & Co. theater in Lenox, Massachusetts in the Berkshires.
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SOURCE: CNN
4/13/19
Shakespeare’s London Home Where He Wrote ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Identified by Historian
Theater historian Geoffrey Marsh spent a decade meticulously researching the home of the English dramatist and poet by cross-referencing official records to pinpoint where exactly Shakespeare lived during the 1590s.
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10/7/18
What Shakespeare’s Wife Could Tell Us
by Katherine West Scheil
But what do we know about her?
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7/23/18
Bloody Shakespeare
by Bruce Chadwick
"Titus Andronicus," a creepy, blood-soaked play that is rarely staged (no wonder), opened last weekend at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey at Drew University.
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7-12-18
A New Macbeth Stumbles to the Top
by Bruce Chadwick
This play's Lady Macbeth looks and acts more like June Cleaver from the old "Leave It to Beaver" television series. She is not plotting treason and murder, but Tuesday’s Tupperware party.
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SOURCE: NYT
2-7-18
Plagiarism Software Unveils a New Source for 11 of Shakespeare’s Plays
What do the noble mastiff, the lowly cur and the trundle-tail have in common besides being terms for dogs?
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6-14-17
The Shameful Attack on the New York Public Theater Production of “Julius Caesar”
by Ed Simon
What the rightwing is really upset about is how Shakespeare helps us see the tyrant for what he is.
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SOURCE: OUPblog
9-24-16
Infographic of the Week: Shakespeare and performance from the 16th century to today
Visualizing Shakespeare's plays through the ages.
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7-2-16
The Wacky World of William Shakespeare (abridged, revised, edited, whew!)
by Bruce Chadwick
Have a night of blistering fun and go see a play by William Shakespeare. Uh oh. Really? Well, yes, really.
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7-2-16
‘To Be or Not to Be’: Shakespeare First Edition Book Goes on Tour
by Bruce Chadwick
400 years later, all the world is still a stage.
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SOURCE: NYT
6-29-16
Confirmation that Shakespeare was Shakespeare
The finding is based on a family coat of arms he had a hand in protecting.
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5-30-16
Suffragettes, Shakespeare and Summertime
by Bruce Chadwick
Outdoor park theaters, movies and concerts are one of the joys of American life in the summertime.
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SOURCE: Reuters
3-24-16
Radar scan of Shakespeare's grave confirms skull apparently missing
Four hundred years after his death and burial at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon, central England, researchers were allowed to scan the grave of England's greatest playwright with ground-penetrating radar.
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6-28-15
The Countess Who Bested Shakespeare
by Chris Laoutaris
And the reason, not known until now, that Shakespeare’s patron sided with her.