James Shapiro

Skytrain to Stratford-upon-Avon

“I sometimes imagine a future in which Shakespeare’s plays have lost their edge, no longer speak to us. That won’t be in my lifetime.”

January 15, 2022

Shakespeare Noir

There are moments in The Tragedy of Macbeth when Shakespeare and Joel Coen feel in perfect alignment.

The Tragedy of Macbeth

a film written and directed by Joel Coen

January 13, 2022 issue

Letter

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

February 24, 2022 issue

The Winter of Our Discontent

Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics

by Stephen Greenblatt

Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny

by Clare Asquith

December 6, 2018 issue

The Question of Hamlet

No generation is comfortable with its predecessor’s take on the play

Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness

by Rhodri Lewis

April 19, 2018 issue

Shylock on Stage and Page

December 9, 2010 issue

Shylock in Red?

October 14, 2010 issue

Letter

Shylock on Stage and Page

December 9, 2010 issue