Theater of Others

03/06/2024

It's on.
I will be directing Much Ado About Nothing, in a modern dress adaptation, this Spring with the venerable Actors Ensemble of Berkeley company. It will be a free show, outdoors in John Hinkel Park.

Actors Ensemble of Berkeley

03/23/2020

An unexpected find at the Folger: a fragment of a First Folio, rebound with an owner's lease to make an easy-to-read copy of "The Winter's Tale."

03/07/2020

Seems like a good place to start...

Early American psychiatrists used the madness of Shakespeare characters like King Lear and Hamlet to argue legal definitions of insanity in the courtroom.

01/25/2020

Happy New Year!

Rats were a big problem for people in the early modern people, since they carried disease, spoiled food supplies, and destroyed books.

12/18/2019

Why do Shakespeare's plays have such a dramatic impact on readers and audiences? Philip Davis shows how Shakespeare's use of language creates heightened brain activity, or what he calls "a theater of the brain."

11/23/2019

10/11/2019