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  • The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote
    Charles Dudley WarnerJune 1879 Issue
  • Memoirs of the Life of William Shakespeare, With an Essay Toward the Expression of His Genius, and an Account of the Rise and Progress of the English Drama to the Time of Shakespeare
    November 1865 Issue
  • The Method of Shakespeare as an Artist, Deduced From an Analysis of His Leading Tragedies and Comedies
    August 1870 Issue
  • Move Over, Shakespeare—Science Has Insights Into Love, Too

    The notion of using scientific methods to illuminate matters of the heart was once ridiculed, but has been vindicated in recent years.

    Conor FriedersdorfJune 30, 2015
  • What Maya Angelou Means When She Says 'Shakespeare Must Be a Black Girl'
    Karen Swallow PriorJanuary 30, 2013
  • Duck Off, Autocorrect

    Chatbots can write poems in the voice of Shakespeare. So why are phone keyboards still thr wosrt?

    Navneet AlangMarch 9, 2023
    A GIF of text that reads "Argh autocorrect!"
  • The Playwright in the Age of AI

    Ayad Akhtar’s new play, McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr., subverts the idea that artificial intelligence threatens human ingenuity.

    Jeffrey GoldbergNovember 2024 Issue
    photo of Robert Downey Jr. sitting, flanked by Bartlett Sher in glasses and blue-green blazer on left and Ayad Akhtar in glasses and tan blazer on right
  • Of the Death of William Shakespeare and the Christening of Solomon Grundy
    Opal WhiteleyJune 1920 Issue
  • How to Talk to Shakespeare, H.G. Wells, and Emily Dickinson
    Sarah FayMarch 14, 2012
  • Tintoret, the Shakespeare of Painters
    William R. ThayerJuly 1891 Issue
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