Tag: James Shapiro
Why Trump has made Shakespeare matter more than ever in DC
There is something inherently Shakespearean about DC. It’s easy to picture Lincoln wandering the corridors of the White House reciting his favorite passages. In...
Report: ‘Justice for Shylock’ at the Library of Congress
The verdict is in: Shylock--the Jewish moneylender whose trial is detailed in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice--has been exonerated.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg presided...