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Excerpt: "King Lear: Shakespeare's Dark Consolations"
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Excerpt: "King Lear: Shakespeare's Dark Consolations"

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King Lear is about insiders who with terrible suddenness are shoved outside, and what they learn or don’t learn from finding themselves positioned there,” writes Arthur Frank.

Excerpt: "Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England" by Daniel Blank
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Excerpt: "Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England" by Daniel Blank

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Daniel Blank writes about Shakespeare’s presence within the early modern university sphere.

Quiz: Deaths in Shakespeare plays
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Quiz: Deaths in Shakespeare plays

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Lots of characters die in Shakespeare’s plays, sometimes in quite violent and graphic ways. Test your knowledge by taking our quiz.

Excerpt: "Shakespeare without a Life" by Margreta de Grazia
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Excerpt: "Shakespeare without a Life" by Margreta de Grazia

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Did Shakespeare give much thought to how his works would survive after his death? Margreta de Grazia argues that his sonnets show he did.

Excerpt: "Richard III's Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity"
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Excerpt: "Richard III's Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity"

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The disabled body of Richard III, a historical English king and one of Shakespeare’s most iconic villains, is the focus of a recent book by Jeffrey R. Wilson.

Excerpt: "Shakespeare's Book" by Chris Laoutaris
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Excerpt: "Shakespeare's Book" by Chris Laoutaris

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Chris Laoutaris explores the Shakespearean printing mystery behind the Pavier-Jaggard Quartos, published a few years before the First Folio.

Q&A with "Our Verse in Time to Come" director Vernice Miller
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Q&A with "Our Verse in Time to Come" director Vernice Miller

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Q&A: "Our Verse in Time to Come" playwrights Malik Work and Karen Ann Daniels
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Q&A: "Our Verse in Time to Come" playwrights Malik Work and Karen Ann Daniels

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Playwrights Malik Work and Karen Ann Daniels share more the creation of Our Verse in Time to Come and spring boarding off Shakespeare.

Excerpt: "White People in Shakespeare"
The Arden Shakespeare. White People in Shakespeare. Essays on Race, Culture and the Elite. Edited by Arthur L. Little Jr.
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Excerpt: "White People in Shakespeare"

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White People in Shakespeare examines what part Shakespeare played in the construction of a “white people” and how his work has been enlisted to define and bolster a white cultural and racial identity.

Q&A: Reynaldo Piniella and Emily Lyon on their bilingual Hamlet
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Q&A: Reynaldo Piniella and Emily Lyon on their bilingual Hamlet

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In this bilingual Hamlet, a Black and Latinx prince has his sense of identity fractured by the loss of his Black father.

Q&A: Lauren Gunderson on her new play, A Room in the Castle, about the women of Hamlet
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Q&A: Lauren Gunderson on her new play, A Room in the Castle, about the women of Hamlet

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In anticipation of the staged reading of A Room in the Castle at Folger Theatre’s 2023 Reading Room Festival, Lauren Gunderson reflects on the play’s creation and inspiration.

Excerpt - "Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne" by Katherine Rundell
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Excerpt - "Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne" by Katherine Rundell

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“Spiritually speaking, many of us confronted with the thought of death perform the psychological equivalence of hiding in a box with our knees under our chin: Donne hunted death, battled it, killed it, saluted it, threw it parties.” Read more…

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