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James Shapiro

James Shapiro is the Larry Miller Professor of English at Columbia. His most recent books are The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 and Shakespeare in a Divided America.
 (January 2022)

Laurence Olivier in Richard III, 1956

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

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