Shakespeare 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 MoreLost Treasure in the Library
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 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…
Read MoreHow I Came to Write about Smallpox
I’m often asked how I came to write about smallpox. I found Lady Mary in a literary footnote fantasizing about Circassian slaves…
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