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1981
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18 hours ago · To Shapiro, whose previous books include “Shakespeare in a Divided America” (2020), “the health of democracy and theater, twin-born in ancient Greece, has always been mutually dependent.”
1 day ago · Shapiro, who teaches at Columbia University and advises New York’s Public Theater and its free Shakespeare in the Park festival, argues that Dies provided a template or “playbook” for Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s better-known House Un-American Activities Committee hearings in the 1950s and for today’s right-wing culture warriors who seek to ban books in public schools and censor ...
3 days ago · Such was very much the case with Oliver Kamm’s May 2 nd, 2024 Quillette op-Ed, “ The Paranoid Style in Shakespeare Denialism ,” a lengthy invective against those who question the attribution of the plays and poems to the legendary gentleman from Stratford-Upon-Avon. Kamm, a UK-based journalist who used to write for The Times —but whom ...
2 days ago · Shapiro, who teaches at ... Un-American Activities Committee hearings in the 1950s and for today’s right-wing culture warriors who seek to ban books in public schools and censor productions of ...
1 day ago · In an enthralling new book about this little-known chapter in American theater history, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro examines the short, tragic life of the Federal Theatre Project. That was a ...
2 days ago · He was first proposed as the sole author of Shakespeare's "stronger plays" in 1895 by Wilbur G. Zeigler. His candidacy was revived by Calvin Hoffman in 1955 and, according to Shapiro, a recent surge in interest in the Marlowe case "may be a sign that the dominance of the Oxfordian camp may not extend much longer than the Baconian one".
3 days ago · "fascinating, tightly written"—Booklist. "Award-winning Shakespeare scholar Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America, creates a vibrant history both of the astonishingly successful Federal Theatre Project and the culture wars that succeeded in quashing it….Sharp history as cautionary tale"--Kirkus.
