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Michael Alexander’s Reading Shakespeare

By John W. Mahon

Reading Shakespeare, 2nd Edition. By Michael Alexander Red Globe Press, 2019. $90 In the winter of 2018-2019, Michael Alexander, a […]

Michael P. Jensen’s The Battle of the Bard

By Geoff Ridden

The Battle of the Bard: Shakespeare on U.S. Radio in 1937. By Michael P. Jensen. ARC Humanities Press / Hardback […]

The Shakespeare Circle: An Alternative Biography

Marsha S. Robinson A collection of 25 essays, The Shakespeare Circle: An Alternative Biography (eds. Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells, […]

The Steep and Thorny Way: A New YA Hamlet

By Fiona Hartley-Kroeger

The Steep and Thorny Way (2016) by Cat Winters joins a long list of recent Hamlet re-imaginings published for teens, […]

“Love well, if not wisely”: Romeo and Juliet… and Benvolio and Rosaline

By Fiona Hartley-Kroeger

“Who lives? Who dies? Why? What events matter; whose voices do we hear? Whose story gets told?”

Talking Books Update

Michael P. Jensen [For years, Michael P. Jensen has interviewed leading scholars and educators in his regular Shakespeare Newsletter column, […]

Abigail Rokison’s Shakespeare for Young People

By Amanda Giguere

Amanda Giguere (Colorado Shakespeare Festival) Abigail Rokison’s 2013 book, Shakespeare for Young People: Productions, Versions and Adaptations, published by Bloomsbury, […]