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James Shapiro

James Shapiro is the Larry Miller Professor of English at Columbia. His most recent book is The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War. (January 2025)

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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