Thursday Seminar: The Fate of America’s First Othello

Date: 

Thursday, January 29, 2026, 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

I Tatti

Speaker: James Shapiro (I Tatti / Columbia University)

Details to follow.

James Shapiro, a Shakespeare scholar at Columbia University, has long focused in his writing on theater’s cultural impact. His books include Shakespeare and the JewsOberammergau1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, which won the Baillie Gifford prize; Contested Will1606: The Year of LearShakespeare in a Divided America; and most recently The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books. He has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded Guggenheim, Cullman, NEH, American Academy in Berlin, and American Academy in Rome fellowships.

 

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