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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)
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
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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