Chibli Mallat introduces 'Democracy Redefined' and explores the Lebanese Constitution's history and its unique approach to democracy.
How did early modern writers link envy in print culture to politics and community?
by John Eglin James Boswell, like a number of wealthy and well-connected British travelers in Italy, could expect to move in elevated social circles as he went from city to city. In common with many of his fellow tourists, he…
A Q&A on the making of Shakespeare Comics - exploring how graphic novels and manga adapt Shakespeare's plays and what they reveal about art, time, and culture.
Enit K Steiner, the author of Contesting Cosmopolitan Moments in the Long Eighteenth Century, discusses the making of her book in this blog.
by Jeffrey Knapp The first speaker in one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays is not a prince, like Hamlet, or a lover, like Juliet, or a warrior, like Macbeth. He’s a drunken beggar. And he’s incensed that the hostess of the tavern…
by Sophie Chiari and Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise In the following quiz, each answer is related to a particular chapter of The Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. We hope, as a result, that this fun test will enable you…
by Marissa Greenberg and Elizabeth Williamson Perhaps the greatest challenge facing US institutions of higher education is the tension between an increasingly diverse student body and an inherently (and inherited) homogenous curriculum. “Meeting today’s students where they are” is a…
The author of Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters explains what the story of Thomas Overbury reveals about success at the court of James VI and I.
by Naomi Mottram Fans of Commedia dell’Arte know that wherever Arlecchino appears, he causes trouble. So perhaps I should have known that he would cause trouble for me… While creating my translation of Sofia Sinitskaia’s tale, Mitrofanushka Durasov, which features…