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**Examples**

[Marjorie Garber, "The Bard Meets the Undead," *New York Times* (Nov. 25, 1994).](https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/25/opinion/the-bard-meets-the-undead.html)

[Marjorie Garber, "As they like it," *Harper's* (April 1999).](https://harpers.org/archive/1999/04/as-they-like-it/)

[Stephen Greenblatt, “Friends, Americans, Countrymen…,” New York Times (Oct. 3, 2004).](https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/opinion/friends-americans-countrymen.html)

[Paula Marantz Cohen “Shylock, My Students, and Me.” The American Scholar (December 1, 2009).](https://theamericanscholar.org/shylock-my-students-and-me/)

[James Shapiro, "Alas, poor Shakespeare," *Los Angeles Times* (April 11, 2010).](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-apr-11-la-oe-shapiro11-2010apr11-story.html)

[James Shapiro, "Hollywood Dishonors the Bard," *New York Times* (Oct. 16, 2011).](https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/opinion/hollywood-dishonors-the-bard.html)

[Noah Berlatsky, "Shakespeare's Conservatism," The Atlantic (Aug. 5, 2014).](https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/08/shakespeares-plays-living-arguments-for-conservatism/375362/)

[Hannah Walser, “I Crave the Law,” *Arcade* (Dec. 20, 2014).](https://arcade.stanford.edu/blogs/i-crave-law)

[Holly Cricker, "The Hamlet Effect," Arcade (2015).](https://arcade.stanford.edu/blogs/hamlet-effect)

[Stephen Greenblatt, “Teaching a Different Shakespeare From the One I Love,” *The New York Times Magazine* (Sept. 11, 2015).](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/magazine/teaching-a-different-shakespeare-than-the-one-i-love.html)

[Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, "Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare's Language," The New Yorker (Oct. 5, 2015).](https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/why-we-mostly-stopped-messing-with-shakespeares-language)

[James Shapiro, "Shakespeare in Modern English?" *New York Times* (Oct. 7, 2015).](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/opinion/shakespeare-in-modern-english.html)

[Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, "What Kind of Novels Did Shakespeare Write?" The New Yorker (Nov. 9, 2015).](https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/what-kind-of-novels-did-shakespeare-write)

[R.L., “Why lawyers love Shakespeare,” *The Economist* (Jan. 8, 2016).](https://www.economist.com/prospero/2016/01/08/why-lawyers-love-shakespeare?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/why_lawyers_love_shakespeare)

[Damian Flannagan, “In search of Japan's own Shakespeare,” *The Japan Times* (April 23, 2016).](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/04/23/books/book-reviews/search-japans-shakespeare#.XKisyS2ZOu4)

[Stephen Greenblatt, “Shakespeare Explains the 2016 Election,” *The New York Times* (Oct. 8, 2016).](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/opinion/sunday/shakespeare-explains-the-2016-election.html?smid=tw-share)

[H.G., “How to translate Shakespeare into American Sign Language,” *The Economist* (Nov. 3, 2016).](https://www.economist.com/prospero/2016/11/23/how-to-translate-shakespeare-into-american-sign-language?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/how_to_translate_shakespeare_into_american_sign_language)

[Isaac Butler, "The Throne Room Where It Happens," *Slate* (Nov. 7, 2016).](http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2016/11/comparing_shakespeare_s_prince_hal_and_lin_manuel_miranda_s_hamilton.html)

[Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, "Two Ways to Bring Shakespeare into the Twenty-First Century," The New Yorker (Dec. 2, 2016).](https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/two-ways-to-bring-shakespeare-into-the-twenty-first-century)

[Matteo Pangallo, "You're All Liars: Donald Trump as Shakespeare's Saddest Villain," The Shakespeare Standard (Feb. 11, 2017).](http://theshakespearestandard.com/youre-liars-donald-trump-shakespeares-saddest-villain/)

[Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, "The Radical Argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare," The New Yorker (Feb. 19, 2017).](https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-radical-argument-of-the-new-oxford-shakespeare)

[Laura Collins-Hughes, “Using Shakespeare to Ease the Trauma of War,” *The New York Times* (March 9, 2017).](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/theater/shakespeare-military-stephan-wolfert-cry-havoc.html)

[Sydnee Wagner, "Rewriting Othello in Get Out,” *Racing Backwards* (March 18, 2017).](https://racebackwards.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/first-blog-post/)

[Jesse Green, “Can Trump Survive in Caesar’s Palace?” *The New York Times* (June 9, 2017).](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/09/theater/review-julius-caesar-delacorte-theater-donald-trump.html)

[Matt Trueman, "Building Shakespeare’s Globe,” *Globe Magazine* (June 12, 2017).](https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blogs-and-features/2017/06/12/building-shakespeares-globe/)

[Anita Diamant, “Who Will Believe Thee? Shakespeare's 'Measure For Measure' On Weinstein, Trump And Justice,” *WBUR* (Oct. 16, 2017).](https://www.wbur.org/artery/2017/10/16/shakespeare-trump-weinstein-measure)

[Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore, “If a Shakespeare play is racist or antisemitic, is it OK to change the ending?” *The Guardian* (Nov. 3, 2017).](https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/nov/03/if-a-shakespeare-play-is-racist-or-antisemitic-is-it-ok-to-change-the-ending?CMP=share_btn_tw)

[Alicia Andrzejewski, "Ophelia’s Rue," Synapsis (Nov. 26, 2017).](https://medicalhealthhumanities.com/2017/11/26/ophelias-rue/)

[Mark Lawson, “Bard Example: Can Shakespeare Translate to the Small Screen?” *The Guardian* (April 2, 2018).](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/apr/02/bard-example-can-shakespeare-translate-to-the-small-screen?CMP=share_btn_tw)

[Matteo Pangallo, "Kids These Days: Romeo and Juliet and #NeverAgain," The Shakespeare Standard (April 10, 2018).](http://theshakespearestandard.com/kids-days-romeo-juliet-neveragain/)

[Alicia Andrzejewski, "Postpartum Exhaustion in William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale and Now," Synapsis (April 29, 2018).](https://medicalhealthhumanities.com/2018/04/29/postpartum-exhaustion-in-william-shakespeares-the-winters-tale-and-now/)

[Kathryn Vomero Santos, “WTF, Shakespeare,” *Shakespeare Quarterly Web Exclusives*.](https://shakespearequarterly.folger.edu/web_exclusive/wtf-shakespeare/)

[Kathryn Vomero Santos, "How Royal History is Changing the Future," CNN (May 23, 2018).](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/05/23/opinions/equal-pay-the-crown-on-shakespeare-cumberbatch-vomero-santos-opinion/index.html)

[Austin Tichenor, “Shakespeare’s patriotic empathy,” *Shakespeare & Beyond* (July 13, 2018).](https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2018/07/13/shakespeare-patriotic-empathy-political/)

[Walt Hunter, “When Hamlet Starts Showing Up in Federal Court,” *The Atlantic* (June 13, 2018).](https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/06/when-hamlet-starts-showing-up-in-federal-court/562703/)

[Lee Seymour, “Is Shakespeare The Key To Detroit's Recovery?” *Forbes* (Sept. 10, 2018).](https://www.forbes.com/sites/leeseymour/2018/09/10/is-shakespeare-the-key-to-detroits-recovery/#1287701313dd)

[Michæl Lutz, "Love/Alters/Not: Bisexuality, History, and the Present," Medium (Sept. 12, 2018).](https://medium.com/@ztul/love-alters-not-bisexuality-history-and-the-present-11b5db51dea2)

[Peter C. Herman, "Shakespeare, Kavanaugh and an Ancient Theme of Sexual Hypocrisy," Times of San Diego (Sept. 24, 2018).](https://timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2018/09/24/opinion-shakespeare-kavanaugh-and-an-ancient-theme-of-sexual-hypocrisy/)

[Benet Brandreth, “The Murderous Playwrights of Elizabethan England,” *CrimeReads* (Sept. 24, 2018).](https://crimereads.com/the-murderous-playwrights-of-elizabethan-england/)

[Yuan Yang, “The Bard in Beijing: how Shakespeare is subverting China,” *Financial Times* (Oct. 5, 2018).](https://www.ft.com/content/cd997246-c57b-11e8-bc21-54264d1c4647)

[Paul Krause, “Shakespeare, a Political Theorist Too,” *Marion West* (Oct. 15, 2019).](https://merionwest.com/2019/10/15/shakespeare-a-political-theorist-too/)

[Gary Taylor, “Death of an English Major,” *Tampa Bay Times* (Nov. 9, 2018).](http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/death-of-an-english-major-20181109/)

[Rebecca Yearling, “Snowflakes and Trigger warnings: Shakespearean Violence has Always Upset People,” *The Conversation* (Nov. 22, 2018).](https://theconversation.com/amp/snowflakes-and-trigger-warnings-shakespearean-violence-has-always-upset-people-107447)

[Michael Anderegg, “Was it the first Shakespeare film? The silent King John,” *Shakespeare & Beyond* (Nov. 27, 2018).](https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2018/11/27/was-it-the-first-shakespeare-film-the-silent-king-john/?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ShakespearePlus28Nov2018&utm_content=version_A&promo=)

[Iman Lavery, “What Shakespeare Can Tell Us About School Shootings,” *Public Seminar* (Dec. 12, 2018).](http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/12/what-shakespeare-can-tell-us-about-school-shootings/)

[Jeffrey Masten, "Philology's Queer Children: Imitation, Authorship, and Shakespeare's "Natural" Language," Arcade (2019).](https://arcade.stanford.edu/content/philologys-queer-children-imitation-authorship-and-shakespeares-natural-language)

[Jane Hwang Degenhardt, "Between Shakespeare, the World, and Me," The Rambling 3 (Jan. 26, 2019).](https://the-rambling.com/2019/01/26/issue3-degenhardt/)

[Emily Lanthrop, "Teaching and Taming: On Bianca in *The Taming of the Shrew* and #MeToo," The Rambling 3 (Jan. 26, 2019).](https://the-rambling.com/2019/01/26/issue3-lathrop/)

[Carol Mejia LaPerle, "Suicide and State Power at the Columbus Statehouse and in Othello," The Rambling 3 (Jan. 26, 2019).](https://the-rambling.com/2019/01/26/issue3-mejia-laperle/)

[Henry Turner, "Pragmatism, Race, and the Collective Subject in Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors," The Rambling 3 (Jan. 26, 2019).](https://the-rambling.com/2019/01/26/issue3-turner/)

[Emily Weissbourd, "Lee Garrett, The Bachelorette’s Incompetent Iago," The Rambling 3 (Jan. 26, 2019).](https://the-rambling.com/2019/01/26/issue3-weissbourd/)

[Laura Kolb, “The Very Modern Anger of Shakespeare’s Women,” *Electric Literature* (Feb. 6, 2019).](https://electricliterature.com/the-very-modern-anger-of-shakespeares-women/)

[Stuart Kells, "How the Invisible Hand of William Shakespeare Influenced Adam Smith," Smithsonian (April 9, 2019).](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-invisible-hand-william-shakespeare-influenced-adam-smith-180971905/)

[Elizabeth Winkler, "Was Shakespeare a Woman," The Atlantic (June 7, 2019).](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/who-is-shakespeare-emilia-bassano/588076/) Plus Responses by [David Scott Kastan, Phyllis Rackin, James Shapiro, Mark Rylance, and David Ellis, "Shakespeare and Company," The Atlantic (June 8, 2019).](https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/06/was-shakespeare-woman-responses/590851/)

[Marcos Gonsalez, "Caliban Never Belonged to Shakespeare," *Literary Hub* (July 26, 2019).](https://lithub.com/caliban-never-belonged-to-shakespeare/)

[Alex Grayson, "Disney Meet Shakespeare," *Northern Kentucky Tribune* (May 3, 2019).](https://www.nkytribune.com/2019/05/alex-grayson-disney-meet-shakespeare-romance-rebellion-action-intrigue-and-great-storytelling/)

[Philip LaPorte, "The Bard and Bollywood," Spectator USA (May 7, 2019).](https://spectator.us/bard-bollywood/)

[John Wells, "5 Best Shakespeare Adaptations (& 5 Terrible Ones) According To IMDb,” *ScreenRant* (May 16, 2020).](https://screenrant.com/best-worst-shakespeare-adaptations-imdb/)

[Jordan Mubako, "Learning to Hate Shakespeare," Public Seminar (June 17, 2019).](http://publicseminar.org/2019/06/learning-to-hate-shakespeare/)

[Seven Richmond, "The Outcast State: Shakespeare’s Unlikely Connection to Black Subjectivity," Public Seminar (June 18, 2019).](http://publicseminar.org/2019/06/the-outcast-state/)

[Mercedes Sapuppo, "How Shakespeare Helps Us Challenge the Far-Right in Europe," Public Seminar (June 19, 2019).](http://publicseminar.org/2019/06/how-shakespeare-helps-us-challenge-the-far-right-in-europe/)

[Max Serrano-Wu, "An Unexpected Concertmaster: How Shakespeare Influenced the Romantic Era," Public Shakespeare (June 20, 2019).](https://publicseminar.org/essays/an-unexpected-concertmaster/)

[Luke Williams, "Shakespeare on Helicopter Parenting," Public Seminar (June 22, 2019).](https://publicseminar.org/essays/shakespeare-on-helicopter-parenting/)

[James Shapirio, "An Unexpected Letter from John Paul Stevens, Shakespeare Skeptic," *The New Yorker* (Aug. 6, 2019).](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/an-unexpected-letter-from-john-paul-stevens-shakespeare-skeptic)

[Ruben Espinosa, "Shakespeare and Your Mountainish Inhumanity,” *The Sundial* (Aug. 16, 2019).](https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/shakespeare-and-your-mountainish-inhumanity-d255474027de)

[David Sterling Brown, "The “Sonic Color Line”: Shakespeare and the Canonization of Sexual Violence Against Black Men,” *The Sundial* (Aug. 16, 2019).](https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/the-sonic-color-line-shakespeare-and-the-canonization-of-sexual-violence-against-black-men-cb166dca9af8)

[Jason Scott-Warren, "Milton’s Shakespeare?" *Centre for Material Texts* (Sept. 9, 2019).](https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/?p=5751)

[Jonathan Beecher Field, "Got Shakespeare?" *Boston Review* (Sept. 20, 2019).](http://bostonreview.net/arts-society/jonathan-beecher-field-got-shakespeare)

[Hyde Flippo, "Reading Shakespeare in German,” *Thought Co.* (Nov. 4, 2019).](https://www.thoughtco.com/shakespeare-in-german-1444581)

[Paul Yachnin and Hannah Korell, "Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ Explores Colonialism, Resistance and Liberation,” *The Conversation* (Nov. 5, 2019).](https://theconversation.com/shakespeares-the-tempest-explores-colonialism-resistance-and-liberation-124683)

[Nate Jones, "How The King Rewrites Shakespeare’s Most Famous Dialogue,” *Vulture* (Nov. 6, 2019).](https://www.vulture.com/2019/11/how-netflixs-the-king-re-writes-shakespeares-dialogue.html)

[Jonathan Hope, "Beyond the Grave,” *The Sundial* (Nov. 12, 2019).](https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/beyond-the-grave-ec9f1e9bb51)

[Austin Tichenor, "‘Our humble author will continue the story’: Shakespearean Prequels and Sequels,” *Shakespeare & Beyond* (Nov. 26, 2019).](https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2019/11/26/shakespeare-sequels-prequels-hamlet/)

[Katherine Gillen and Lisa Jennings, "Decolonizing Shakespeare? Toward an Antiracist, Culturally Sustaining Praxis,” The Sundial (Nov. 26, 2019).](https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/decolonizing-shakespeare-toward-an-antiracist-culturally-sustaining-praxis-904cb9ff8a96)

[Kimberly Anne Coles, Kim F. Hall, and Ayanna Thompson, "BlacKKKShakespearean: A Call to Action for Medieval and Early Modern Studies," *Profession* (Fall 2019).](https://profession.mla.org/blackkkshakespearean-a-call-to-action-for-medieval-and-early-modern-studies/)

[Ben Broadribb, "#Rethinking2020: Shakespeare on Film,” ‘Action is eloquence’: (Re)thinking Shakespeare (Dec. 27, 2019).](https://medium.com/action-is-eloquence-re-thinking-shakespeare/rethinking2020-shakespeare-on-film-4ca000bf9d65)

[Gemma Allred, "#Rethinking2020: Reclaiming Shakespeare,” *‘Action is eloquence’: (Re)thinking Shakespeare* (Dec. 31, 2019).](https://medium.com/action-is-eloquence-re-thinking-shakespeare/rethinking2020-reclaiming-shakespeare-3bca69485c61)

[Erin Blakemore, "The Rowdy Women of Early Modern Theater,” *JSTOR Daily* (Jan. 1, 2020).](https://daily.jstor.org/the-rowdy-women-of-early-modern-theater/)

[Ronan Hatfull, "#Rethinking2020: Shakespeare in Performance,” ‘Action is eloquence’: (Re)thinking Shakespeare, Part 1 (Jan. 3, 2020)](https://medium.com/action-is-eloquence-re-thinking-shakespeare/rethinking2020-shakespeare-in-performance-part-one-82741931dcf4); [Part 2 (Jan. 7, 2020).](https://medium.com/action-is-eloquence-re-thinking-shakespeare/rethinking2020-shakespeare-in-performance-part-two-f206409e8d0c)

[Lauren Shook, "Cursing Coriolanus and Combating Cornhoarders,” *Shakespeare & Beyond* (Jan. 7, 2020).](https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2020/01/07/cursing-coriolanus-combating-cornhoarders/)

[Umaru Fofana, “The Interview: Prof. Eldred Jones, a Towering Figure in Africa Literature Turns 95,” *Politico SL* (Jan. 12, 2020).](https://www.politicosl.com/articles/interview-prof-eldred-jones-towering-figure-africa-literature-turns-95)

[Daniel Swift, "Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene," Los Angeles Review of Books (Jan. 15, 2020).](https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/reading-shakespeare-in-the-anthropocene/)

[Moeko Fujii, “Let them Misunderstand: Seeing Shakespeare with Ninagawa,” *The Point* (Jan. 28, 2020).](https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/let-them-misunderstand/)

[Daniel Blank, “Making Shakespeare a Classic,” *OUP Blog* (Jan. 29, 2020).](https://blog.oup.com/2020/01/making-shakespeare-a-classic/)

[Dominic Cavendish, "The Woke Brigade are Close to ‘Cancelling’ Shakespeare,” *The Telegraph* (Feb. 9, 2020).](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/woke-brigade-close-cancelling-shakespeare/)

[Valerie M. Fazel, "'Perform what you command': Fan Ethnodramaturgy and YouTube Shakespeares,” *The Sundial* (Feb. 10, 2020).](https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/perform-what-you-command-fan-ethnodramaturgy-and-youtube-shakespeares-f966ef717569)

["The Madness of Hamlet and King Lear: When Psychiatrists Used Shakespeare to Argue Legal Definitions of Insanity in the Courtroom,” *Shakespeare & Beyond* (Feb. 11, 2020).](https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2020/02/11/madness-king-lear-hamlet-insanity-courtroom-psychiatrists/)

[Gareth Sturdy, "It’s Not Racism that Makes Us Value Shakespeare,” *Spiked* (Feb. 12, 2020).](https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/02/12/its-not-racism-that-makes-us-value-shakespeare/)

[Scott Newstok and Alexander C. Kafka, "Why Students Should Think Like Shakespeare,” *The Chronicle of Higher Education* (Feb. 23, 2020).](https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Students-Should-Think-Like/248089)

[Brid Phillips, “To Be or Not To Be (Sad)?: Engaging with Negative Emotions,” *Synapsis* (Feb. 28, 2020).](https://medicalhealthhumanities.com/2020/02/28/to-be-or-not-to-be-sad-engaging-with-negative-emotions/)

[James Shapiro, "The Mirror That Shakespeare Holds Up to America,” The Wall Street Journal (March 5, 2020).](https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-mirror-that-shakespeare-holds-up-to-america-11583426780)

[Ben Cohen, "The Infectious Pestilence Did Reign,” *Slate* (March 10, 2020).](https://slate.com/culture/2020/03/shakespeare-plague-influence-hot-hand-ben-cohen.html)

[Emma Smith, "'Out damned spot': The Lady Macbeth Hand-Washing Scene that Became a Coronavirus Meme,” *Penguin Books* (March 12, 2020).](https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2020/mar/the-history-behind-the-lady-macbeth-coronavirus-meme/)

[Sarah Enloe, “Teaching Shakespeare With Play from Far Away,” *American Shakespeare Center* (March 13, 2020).](https://americanshakespearecenter.com/2020/03/teaching-shakespeare-with-play-from-far-away/)

[Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, “Shakespeare Wrote His Best Works During a Plague,” *The Atlantic* (March 14, 2020).](https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/03/broadway-shutdown-could-be-good-theater-coronavirus/607993/)

[Kathryn Harkup, “Why Shakespeare Would have been Obsessed with Coronavirus,” *The Telegraph* (March 15, 2020).](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/shakespeare-would-have-obsessed-coronavirus/)

[Emma Smith, "Top Five Shakespeare Plays that Speak to the 21st Century,” *The Independent* (March 16, 2020).](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/shakespeare-plays-best-twelfth-night-othello-coronavirus-plague-latest-a9404421.html)

[Emily Temple, "So Shakespeare Wrote King Lear During a Plague. Well, Good for Him, Say All the Writers," *Lit Hub* (March 16, 2020).](https://lithub.com/shakespeare-wrote-king-lear-during-a-plague-well-good-for-him-say-all-the-writers/)

[Andrew Dickson, “Shakespeare in Lockdown: Did he Write King Lear in Plague Quarantine?” *The Guardian* (March 22, 2020).](https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/mar/22/shakespeare-in-lockdown-did-he-write-king-lear-in-plague-quarantine)

[Simon Godwin, "An Unsung Masterpiece Finds Its Moment of Truth in the District,” *The Washington Post* (March 27, 2020).](https://www.shakespearetheatre.org/an-unsung-masterpiece-finds-its-moment-of-truth-in-the-district/)

[Haylie Swenson, "Shakespeare’s much-maligned toads and frogs," Shakespeare & Beyond (March 27, 2020).](https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2020/03/27/toads-frogs-shakespeare-plays-poison-witchcraft/)

[Ian Wheeler, “Shakespeare Survived Quarantine With a Little Help From His Patrons,” *New York Times* (March 26, 2020).](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/opinion/quarantines-art-covid.html)

[Emma Smith, “What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Living With Pandemics,” *New York Times* (March 28, 2020).](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/opinion/coronavirus-shakespeare.html)

[Paul Budra, "What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About Conspiracy Theories Today,” *CBC Radio* (March 31, 2020).](https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/what-shakespeare-can-teach-us-about-conspiracy-theories-today-1.5516289)

[Emma Smith, "The Page's the Thing – Take It from Shakespeare's Earliest Readers,” *The Guardian* (April 1, 2020).](https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/apr/01/reading-shakespeare-book-plays-emma-smith)

[Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, "What Shakespeare Actually Did During the Plague," *The New Yorker* (April 1, 2020).](https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/what-shakespeare-actually-did-during-the-plague)

[Katherine Scheil, "Celebrating Shakespeare in a Pandemic,” *University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts* (April 1, 2020).](https://cla.umn.edu/english/news-events/news/celebrating-shakespeare-pandemic)

[Hanh Bui, "For the love of laughter," Shakespeare's Globe (April 1, 2020).](https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blogs-and-features/2020/04/01/for-the-love-of-laughter/)

[Paul Yachnin, "After the Plague, Shakespeare Imagined a World Saved from Poison, Slander and the Evil Eye,” *The Conversation* (April 5, 2020).](https://theconversation.com/after-the-plague-shakespeare-imagined-a-world-saved-from-poison-slander-and-the-evil-eye-134608)

[Kate Maltby, "What Shakespeare Can -- and Can't -- Teach us About Covid-19,” *CNN* (April 8, 2020).](https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/opinions/covid-19-and-plague-literature-maltby/index.html)

[James Shapiro, "The Shakespeare Play That Presaged the Trump Administration’s Response fo the Coronavirus Pandemic,” *The New Yorker* (April 8, 2020).](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-shakespeare-play-that-presaged-the-trump-administrations-response-to-the-coronavirus-pandemic)

[Jeffrey R. Wilson, "Which of Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes is Donald Trump?” *New York Daily News* (April 13, 2020).](https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-which-of-shakespeares-tragic-heroes-is-donald-trump-20200413-cpv5ny6ckrfqzdy4jes6afxhka-story.html)

[Emma Poltrack, "Edward Dering and the earliest record of an amateur private performance of a Shakespeare play," Shakespeare & Beyond (April 14, 2020).](https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2020/04/14/edward-dering-amateur-private-performance-shakespeare-play/)

[Jeffrey R. Wilson, "Social Distancing with Shakespeare,” *North Philly Notes* (April 15, 2020).](https://templepress.wordpress.com/2020/04/15/social-distancing-with-shakespeare/)

[Rupert Christiansen, "Can Silicon Chips Ever Be a Match for Shakespeare?” *The Telegraph* (April 17, 2020).](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/can-silicon-chips-ever-match-shakespeare/)

[Jeffrey R. Wilson, "10 Scenes from Shakespeare that Fit Donald Trump’s Presidency — Streaming Now,” *MarketWatch* (April 17, 2020).](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/10-scenes-from-shakespeare-that-fit-donald-trumps-presidency-streaming-now-2020-04-17)

[Emma Smith, "How to Read Shakespeare for Pleasure,” *The Conversation* (April 21, 2020).](https://theconversation.com/how-to-read-shakespeare-for-pleasure-136409)

[Scott Jaschik and Scott Newstok, "How to Think Like Shakespeare,” *Inside Higher Ed* (April 21, 2020).](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/04/21/author-discusses-his-book-shakespeare-and-state-education)

[Alys Daroy, "Shakespeare and climate change," Shakespeare's Globe (April 22, 2020).](https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blogs-and-features/2020/04/22/shakespeare-and-climate-change/)

[Laura Jayne Wright, "Shakespeare on Zoom: How a Theatre Group in Isolation Conjured up a Tempest,” *The Conversation* (April 23, 2020).](https://theconversation.com/shakespeare-on-zoom-how-a-theatre-group-in-isolation-conjured-up-a-tempest-136974)

["5 Shakespeare Scholars on the Past, Present, and Future of Theater Amid COVID-19,” *Literary Hub* (April 23, 2020).](https://lithub.com/5-shakespeare-scholars-on-the-past-present-and-future-of-theater-amid-covid-19/)

[Emma Smith, "Shakespeare’s Answer to the Plague? More Sex and Comedy,” *Prospect* (April 23, 2020).](https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/shakespeares-answer-to-the-plague-more-sex-and-comedy)

[Scott Newstock, "How to Think like Shakespeare (Quarantine Edition),” *Linked In* (April 23, 2020).](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-think-like-shakespeare-quarantine-edition-scott-newstok/)

[Kayleigh Donaldson, “The Weird Sisters of Shakespeare and the Witchcraft Trials of His Times,” *SyFy Wire* (April 29, 2020).](https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-weird-sisters-of-shakespeare-and-the-witchcraft-trials-of-his-time)

[Will Tosh, "Just good friends? Same-sex intimacy in The Two Noble Kinsmen," Shakespeare's Globe (May 3, 2020).](https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blogs-and-features/2020/05/03/just-good-friends/)

[Alexis Soloski, "Is This a Livestream I See Before Me?” *New York Times* (May 13, 2020).](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/theater/shakespeare-online.html)

[Gemma Allred and Ben Broadribb, "Lockdown Shakespeare: the State of (the) Play,” *‘Action is eloquence’: (Re)thinking Shakespeare* (May 18, 2020).](https://medium.com/action-is-eloquence-re-thinking-shakespeare/lockdown-shakespeare-the-state-of-the-play-88742a95d4ea)

[Scott Newstok, "How to think like a sonnet, or, fourteen ways of looking around a room," Shakespeare & Beyond (May 19, 2020).](https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2020/05/19/how-to-think-like-a-sonnet-fourteen-ways-of-looking-around-a-room/)

[David B. Goldstein, "The dinner table as classroom: Home-schooling gone wrong in ‘The Taming of the Shrew’," Shakespeare & Beyond (May 22, 2020).](https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2020/05/22/teaching-table-taming-of-the-shrew/)

[Farah Karim-Cooper, "Anti-racist Shakespeare," Shakespeare's Globe (May 26, 2020).](https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blogs-and-features/2020/05/26/anti-racist-shakespeare/)

[Emily Pitts Donahoe, "Troilus and Cressida and a Diseased Body Politic: Reading Shakespeare in a Time of Plague,” *Public Seminar* (May 28, 2020).](https://publicseminar.org/2020/05/troilus-and-cressida-portrait-of-a-diseased-body-politic/)

[Ayanna Thompson, “From Wall Street to Shakespeare,” *Transformations* (May 28, 2020).](https://www.transformationnarratives.com/blog/2020/05/28/from-wall-street-to-shakespeare)

[Scott Newstok, "We Would All Do Well to Think More Like Shakespeare,” *Dallas Morning News* (May 31, 2020),](https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2020/05/31/we-would-all-do-well-to-think-more-like-shakespeare/)

[Tana Wojczuk, "How Shakespeare Paperbacks Made Me Want to Be a Writer,” *New York Times Magazine* (June 2, 2020).](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/magazine/how-shakespeare-paperbacks-made-me-want-to-be-a-writer.html)

[Alan Gillespie, "Has Coronavirus Signalled the End for Shakespeare?” TES (June 8, 2020).](https://www.tes.com/news/has-coronavirus-signalled-end-shakespeare)

[Brandi K. Adams, "The King, and Not I: Refusing Neutrality,” *The Sundial* (June 9, 2020).](https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/the-king-and-not-i-refusing-neutrality-dbab4239e8a9)

[Gary Taylor, "What Hamlet Can Teach Us About Black Lives Matter,” *Tampa Bay Times* (June 14, 2020).](https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2020/06/14/what-hamlet-can-teach-us-about-black-lives-matter-column/)

[Andrea Crow, "Teaching Shakespeare Under Quarantine," LA Review of Books (June 27, 2020).](https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/teaching-shakespeare-under-quarantine/)

[Nora Williams, "Canon-Making/Canon-Busting," NotInOurStars (July 7, 2020).](https://notinourstars.wordpress.com/2020/07/07/canon-making-canon-busting/)

[Keith Hamilton Cobb, "The irony of the American Moor," Shakespeare & Beyond (July 14, 2020).](https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2020/07/14/american-moor-irony-keith-hamilton-cobb/)

[Debra Ann Byrd, "BECOMING OTHELLO! A gender-flipped journey onstage and in the archive," Shakespeare & Beyond (July 24, 2020).](https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2020/07/24/becoming-othello-gender-flipped-journey-onstage-archive/)

[Caroline Siede, "William Shakespeare Invented Every Romantic Comedy Trope We Love Today," *AV Club* (July 31, 2020).](https://film.avclub.com/william-shakespeare-invented-every-romantic-comedy-trop-1844474648?rev=1596151804382)

[Geoffrey Way, "Introducing the Qualities of Mercy Dispatches," The Sundial (Aug. 12, 2020). ](https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/introducing-the-qualities-of-mercy-dispatches-3a2682f98585)Plus entries from [Vanessa Corredera](https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/the-space-between-justice-and-mercy-a-qualities-of-mercy-dispatch-7410c47c6a7c), [Katherine Gillen](https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/language-race-and-shakespeare-appropriation-on-san-antonios-southside-a-qualities-of-mercy-9baed8e93599), [Kathryn Vomero Santos](https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/towering-mercy-a-qualities-of-mercy-dispatch-26af224c70f7), [Brooke Carlson](https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/for-fun-and-for-free-shaking-out-shakespeare-in-hawaii-a-qualities-of-mercy-dispatch-4a43b6ea6de0), [Mary Janell Metzger](https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/interpreting-shakespeare-as-historical-reckoning-a-qualities-of-mercy-dispatch-a94ad1b1c4e3), [Jonathan Burton](https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/defiant-re-envisioning-a-qualities-of-mercy-dispatch-c3bafaf421af), and [Ambereen Dadabhoy](https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/when-the-quality-of-mercy-isnt-meant-for-you-a-qualities-of-mercy-dispatch-77f28f5ef810).

[Arsh Dhillon, Phillip Michalak, Bernadette Looney, Sonia Kangaju, and Charles Onesti, “Black Lives Matter in the Public Theater’s Much Ado About Nothing,” Literary Hub (Aug. 14, 2020).](https://lithub.com/black-lives-matter-in-the-public-theaters-much-ado-about-nothing/)

[Alexandra E. LaGrand, "William Charles Macready and the restoration of William Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’," Shakespeare & Beyond (Aug.18, 2020).](https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2020/08/18/william-charles-macready-king-lear-restoration/)

[Harry R. McCarthy, "Leave to speak: Allyship and Shakespeare Studies," Shakespeare's Globe Blog (Aug. 21, 2020).](https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blogs-and-features/2020/08/21/leave-to-speak-allyship-and-shakespeare-studies/)

[Robert McCrum, "For ever and a day: why we turn to Shakespeare at times of crisis," The Guardian (Aug. 22, 2020).](https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/aug/22/for-ever-and-a-day-why-we-turn-to-shakespeare-at-times-of-crisis)

[Ruben Espinosa, "A Darker Shade of Shakespeare," Shakespeare's Globe Blog (Aug. 23, 2020).](https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blogs-and-features/2020/08/23/a-darker-shade-of-shakespeare/)

[Charlotte Scott, "Talking back to Shakespeare: theatre in women’s prisons," Red Pepper (Aug. 26, 2020).](https://www.redpepper.org.uk/shakespeare-womens-prisons/)

[Madeline Sayet, "Interrogating the Shakespeare System," HowlRound (Aug. 31, 2020).](https://howlround.com/interrogating-shakespeare-system)

[Peter C. Herman, "As for Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear,’ Tragic Darkness May Follow Nov. 3," Times of San Diego (Sept. 1, 2020).](https://timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2020/09/01/as-for-shakespeares-king-lear-tragic-darkness-may-follow-nov-3/)

[Andrew G. Van Camp, “Shakespeare Travesties, the Philosophical and the Popular,” Shakespeare and Beyond (Sept. 1, 2020).](https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2020/09/01/shakespeare-travesties-philosophical-popular/)

[Stanley Wells, "Introducing Shakespeare to Young Readers," OUP Blog (Sept. 7, 2020).](https://blog.oup.com/2020/09/introducing-shakespeare-to-young-readers/)

[Kristina Straub, "Strange Shakespeare: Transforming ‘The Tempest’, classifying Caliban," Shakespeare & Beyond (Sept. 11, 2020).](https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2020/09/11/strange-shakespeare-transforming-the-tempest-classifying-caliban/)

[Ajay Kamalakaran, "When Russia appeared in William Shakespeare’s plays," Russia Beyond (Sept. 18, 2020).](https://www.rbth.com/arts/332736-russia-in-shakespeare-plays)

[Mira ʿAssaf Kafantaris, "Why Race before Race Now?" Petites Nouvelles (Sept. 21, 2020).](https://medium.com/@assaf.mira/this-essay-was-published-in-the-center-for-medieval-and-renaissance-studies-at-the-ohio-state-688762a07ee3)

[Austin Tichenor, "'In the brave squares': The Show Must Go Online," Shakespeare & Beyond (Sept. 29, 2020).](https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2020/09/29/the-show-must-go-online-shakespeare-productions-zoom/)

[Eliot A. Cohen, "The Feckless King," The Atlantic (Oct. 5, 2020).](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/trump-shakespeare/616612/)

[Catherine Butler, "Hamlet is Shakespeare’s Greatest Villain," The Conversation (Oct. 13, 2020).](https://theconversation.com/hamlet-is-shakespeares-greatest-villain-147290)

[Marissa Joseph, "Toni Morrison’s Desdemona and #BlackGirlMagic," The Sundial (Oct. 13, 2020).](https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/toni-morrisons-blackgirlmagic-29576056eefb)

[Jami Rogers, "Pioneers and the Shakespearean glass ceiling," Shakespeare's Globe (Oct. 19, 2020).](https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blogs-and-features/2020/10/19/pioneers-and-the-shakespearean-glass-ceiling/)

[Vanessa I. Corredera, "Pleasure and pain in Black Shakespearean performance history," Shakespeare's Globe (Oct. 22, 2020).](https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blogs-and-features/2020/10/22/pleasure-and-pain-in-black-shakespearean-performance-history/)

[Austin Tichenor, "“Comic sport”: Shakespeare’s depictions of governments in chaos," Shakespeare & Beyond (October 30, 2020). ](https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2020/10/30/henry-vi-government-chaos-comic-absurdity/)

[William Thornton, "Spending the pandemic with Shakespeare," AL.com (Oct. 31, 2020).](https://www.al.com/life/2020/10/spending-the-pandemic-with-shakespeare.html)​​​​​​​

[Joseph Pearce, "William Shakespeare and the Saints," National Catholic Register (Nov. 1, 2020).](https://www.ncregister.com/blog/shakespeare-and-saints)

[Paul Yachnin, "Shakespeare’s ‘Timon of Athens,’ penned in plague-time, shows money corrupts but can also heal," The Conversation (Nov. 2, 2020).](https://theconversation.com/shakespeares-timon-of-athens-penned-in-plague-time-shows-money-corrupts-but-can-also-heal-143493)

[Will Tosh, "Darkness does the face of earth entomb," Shakespeare's Globe (Nov. 4, 2020).](https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blogs-and-features/2020/11/04/darkness-does-the-face-of-earth-entomb/)

[Peter Marks, "Shakespeare wrote ‘King Lear’ during a plague. What great work will emerge from this pandemic?" Washinton Post (Nov. 6, 2020).](https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/great-artistic-works-during-plagues/2020/11/05/6575cac2-1d29-11eb-90dd-abd0f7086a91_story.html)

[Daniel O’Quinn, "Strange Shakespeare: The anti-Shylock in the boxing ring," Shakespeare & Beyond (Nov. 10, 2020).](https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2020/11/10/strange-shakespeare-anti-shylock-boxing-ring/)

[Chloe Gong, "These Violent Delights: Retelling Romeo and Juliet," Shakespeare & Beyond (Nov. 17, 2020).](https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2020/11/17/these-violent-delights-chloe-gong-romeo-and-juliet/)

[Austin Tichenor, "William Shakespeare: International Man of Mystery," Shakespeare & Beyond (Nov. 27, 2020).](https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2020/11/27/international-man-of-mystery/)