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Friday, May 6, 2022

'To Be or Not to Be': Is It the Question or the Point? by Stephen Greenblatt

At the Metropolitan Opera, Brett Dean and Matthew Jocelyn's adaptation of "Hamlet" nods to different, surprising versions of Shakespeare's text.

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Sunday, April 23, 2017

Nonfiction: Their Hours Upon the Stage: Performing 'Hamlet' Around the World by Stephen Greenblatt

To celebrate Shakespeare's 450th birthday, London's Globe Theater performed "Hamlet" in 190 countries. Dominic Dromgoole looks back on the run in "Hamlet Globe to Globe."

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Sunday, October 9, 2016

Opinion: Shakespeare Explains the 2016 Election by Stephen Greenblatt

He understood how a great country could wind up being governed by a sociopath.

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Sunday, September 13, 2015

The Education Issue: Teaching a Different Shakespeare From the One I Love by Stephen Greenblatt

After discovering that students don't share his passion for the playwright's command of language, a professor concludes that all's well that ends well.

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Saturday, April 30, 2011

Shakespeare and the Will to Deceive by STEPHEN GREENBLATT

Arthur Phillips's splendidly devious novel consists of a Shakespearean play of his own virtuosic creation and an "introduction" that devastatingly reveals the psychological life of its autho…

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