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Who Slept in Shakespeare's Bed? (And Why Does it Matter?)
Read More…Was Shakespeare gay? Stephen Greenblatt says that Shakespeare inhabited a world in which "it is much more possible to express homosexual passion and enact that passion without triggering a social crisis."
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The Poem That Dragged Us Out of the Dark Ages
Read More…Particle physics. Human self-determination. Evolution. According to Renaissance scholar Stephen Greenblatt, we owe these modern ideas to an ancient Roman poem, rediscovered in 1417.
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Why You Should Read Shakespeare to Your Children
Read More…Listening to Mozart does not improve your child's cognitive development. Reading Shakespeare will.
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Kenji Yoshino: Shakespeare and the Rule of Law
Read More…What does Shakespeare have to do with civil rights?