Shakespeare’s Faces
Everyone knows Shakespeare’s iconic portrait from the First Folio (1623), but I’ve never much liked it. There are others…
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How the Bard Won the West (Smithsonian Magazine, August, 1998). “Sometime in late 1863, a tall thin man rode out of an Army camp…”
Read MoreHow the Bard Won the West: Back Story
In the summer of 1997, I drove 1200 miles around the American West looking for Shakespeare, on assignment from the Smithsonian Magazine…
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