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Friday, May 13, 2016

Race card by Gary Taylor

How did the English become white? Gary Taylor finds the answer in a piece of 17th-century street theatreLike any other word, "white" - in the modern, racial sense - was invented. And it is p…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:10PM
Sunday, April 17, 2016

How I found Cardenio, Shakespeare's lost play by Gary Taylor

As a Renaissance scholar, I've been piecing together fragments of a play believed to be part-written by Shakespeare. Now the results are about to go on showIn the spring of 1613, the office …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM