
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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James Shapiro is Larry Miller Professor of English at Columbia and Shakespeare Scholar in Residence at the Public Theater. His latest book is The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606. (December 2018)
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
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