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Category: Reflections and Essays

Gaslighting the Gallery: Sexual Violence in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Over the last decade, individuals who have been sexually harassed, assaulted, and violated have found the courage, the community, and […]

Looking Back – The Shakespeare Newsletter 1991-2019

We almost made it, Tom Pendleton and I, to an even thirty years of print publication for The Shakespeare Newsletter. But forced economies since my retirement in 2014 made the switch to digital publication inevitable. I know both Tom and I are grateful to our successor as Editor, Dr. Thomas J. Moretti, for holding on to print for as long as he has. As the newsletter transitions from print to digital, it seemed a good opportunity to reflect in this final print issue on the Iona years so far.

How to Think Like Shakespeare

Class of 2020, welcome to college. Right about now, your future professors are probably sitting in a faculty meeting, rolling […]

Self-help Shakespeare

Lauren Rollins (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) At a recent lunch with one of my oldest and best friends—a very established, corporate […]