The Jacobean dramatist
by Denis Donoghue
On James Shapiro’s appraisals of Shakespeare.
On James Shapiro’s appraisals of Shakespeare.
On the many stagings of Macbeth.
On Shakespeare’s sonnets.
On Shakespeare’s religious sources.
On attempting to “translate” Shakespeare.
On Anthony Hecht’s engagement with Shakespeare.
On the rebirth of a Bronx monument.
On Blackbird, at the Belasco Theatre; The Royale, at the Mitzi E. Newhouse at Lincoln Center; and Eclipsed, at the Golden Theatre.
On “Unfinished” at Met Breuer.
On “Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art,” at the National Gallery, London; “Pre-Raphaelites on Paper: Victorian Drawings from the Lanigan Collection” at Leighton House Museum, London; and “Botticelli Reimagined” at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
On “Meryl Meisler” at Steven Kasher Gallery, New York; “The Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts” at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; and “Michelle Vaughan: Generations” at Theodore:Art, Brooklyn.
On Manon Lescaut, at the Metropolitan Opera; Juraj Valcuha at the NY Phil; the Jasper String Quartet at Weill Recital Hall; the Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall; and The King and I at Lincoln Center.
On the loss of honor in the political sphere.
On the political degradation of new music.
Notes & Comments
Glaciers and sex
by The Editors
On the academy’s latest folly.