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John E. Alvis, “The Corrupting Influence of Power in Shakespeare’s Plays" (July 2016)
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) the discussi...
The Banning of the Bard
William Shakespeare’s plays have been performed in many ways. They’ve been translated into nearly...
Shakespeare and January 6th
On the first anniversary of the Capitol riots, I find myself reflecting on Shakespeare’s various ...
Happy Birthday, Shakespeare!
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18
"The poet & the painter praise this heraldry of summer days" (detail) Walter Crane , 1891William ...
Love and Change: Antony and Cleopatra
Johann Georg Wille, after Pompeo Batoni, Death of Marc Antony, 1778 (detail)Shakespeare’s telling...
Why Shakespeare Should Be Watched
Reading Shakespeare is hard. The syntax is unusual and archaic. The vocabulary is vast and unfami...
Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece
Rape of Lucretia. Origin: Southern Netherlands. Date: c 1575, Rijksmuseum (CC0 1.0)Disturbed and ...
“Out, damned spot.” Out Shakespeare.
Lady Macbeth marchant dans son sommeil, Pierre Narcisse Guerin (detail)When it comes to why Thoma...
“Put money in thy purse”: Shakespeare and Investment
Much like Prince Hal in Henry IV, Part I, Shakespeare understood that with reward, comes risk and...
Misguided Perception and Self-Righteous Judgment in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing
Like so many of Shakespeare’s comedies, Much Ado About Nothing comes perilously close to becoming...
Banning Shylock
“One would have to be blind, deaf, and dumb not to recognize that Shakespeare’s grand, equivocal ...
No Such Thing as a Free Salad Chez Shakespeare
Though William Shakespeare may have wished it otherwise, there was no such thing as a free lunch ...
Something New for Shakespeare at the OLL
We don’t actually know for sure what day Shakespeare was born. We know that he was baptized on Ap...
Macbeth in Early Social Media
The Witches of Macbeth, Henry Fuseli, 1887In London between 1700 and 1750 one in six theatrical p...
The Duke’s Deceit in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
Miniature of Absalom and a woman in bed, 1445 (detail)In Act 4, Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s Measure ...
Shakespeare, the Renaissance, and a Classical Mirror for Princes
Shylock on Rats and Rational Choice
Written less than a decade after Marlowe’s Jew of Malta, Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice exp...
In Praise of the Long Read
Despite persistent cultural insistence that February is the shortest month, it is obvious to even...
“This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine”: Prospero and Caliban in The Tempest
Caliban, Prospero, and Miranda (detail), Thomas RowlandsonIn the final act of Shakespeare’s The T...