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William Shakespeare

Campaign Literature

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

From a certain angle, Donald Trump’s presidency may not have moved the United States in entirely the wrong direction. One of the few areas to benefit from his stewardship, the…

New Books

by Joshua Cohen,

John Florio — lexicographer, raconteur, and supposed model for Shakespeare’s schoolmaster Holofernes, in Love’s Labour’s Lost — was born in London in 1553 to an unidentified Englishwoman and an Italian Protestant who’d…

A very palpable hit

by Harper’s Staff,

The Pirate Economy

by Robert Neuwirth,

The mirror of life

by Jonathan Bate,

How Shakespeare conquered the world

Shakespeare striding through a storm-ridden landscape (detail)

Art by Giovanni Battista Cipriani,

New books

by John Leonard,

McBeth

by Harper’s Staff,

Browsing for gold

by Guy Lesser,

Adventures in the rare-book trade

Untitled

by Walt Whitman,

Golden lads and chimney-sweepers

by Jonathan Bate,

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