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Speaker: James Shapiro (I Tatti / Columbia University)
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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 Jews; Oberammergau; 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, which won the Baillie Gifford prize; Contested Will; 1606: The Year of Lear; Shakespeare 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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