Burning Man: Hilliard’s Man Against Flames
“The flames seemed to flicker and hiss”: Man against Flames, by Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1588), V&A, London
Read MoreThe Shakespeare Secret in The Independent
After Da Vinci, Readers Rush to Unravel the Secrets of Shakespeare…
Read MoreElizabeth I, the Folger’s “Sieve” Portrait
“A face capable of both greatness and cruelty”: Queen Elizabeth I, the Plimpton “Sieve” Portrait at the Folger Shakespeare Library
Read MoreShakespeare in the Wild West: Jennifer on Arizona Spotlight
Jennifer talks about Shakespeare’s popularity in the Wild West with James Reel on AZPM’s “Arizona Spotlight” (Oct. 26, 2007)…
Read MoreInspiration — Interred With Their Bones
One autumn evening early in graduate school, poking about in a corner of Harvard’s Widener Library, I came upon an old set of books…
Read MoreShakespeare’s Manuscripts
There aren’t any. Once upon a time, of course, there must have been quite a few…
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