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James Shapiro

生年: September 11, 1955 – Brooklyn, New York, United States

James Shapiro is a literary scholar and author focused on Shakespeare, early modern culture, and theater in public life. His books include 1599, The Year of Lear, Shakespeare in a Divided America, and The Playbook; 1599 won the Samuel Johnson Prize, and The Year of Lear won the James Tait Black Prize. ((https://english.columbia.edu/content/james-shapiro?utm_source=openai))

経歴と著者の歩み

James Shapiro grew up in Brooklyn and followed an academic path through Columbia University, where he earned his B.A. in 1977, and the University of Chicago, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1982. An irony at the center of his biography is that he has repeatedly said he disliked Shakespeare when he encountered the plays in high school and never took a Shakespeare course in college. That early resistance became a turning point: rather than treating Shakespeare as a remote monument, Shapiro came to him through history, performance, and the pressures of lived political life. ((https://english.columbia.edu/content/james-shapiro))

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Everybody stakes a claim in Shakespeare
-As You Like It
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We want to believe that what started in England ended in America
-As You Like It
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It is explosive. It is potentially toxic, but that's why it speaks to us
-As You Like It
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Shakespeare offers us a way of engaging in issues that are otherwise too toxic or too difficult to address
-Shakespeare in a Divided America
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Shakespeare truly is for everybody in this country. It’s not for an elite
-Shakespeare in a Divided America
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But Shakespeare is commonly owned, which means it’s one of the very few sites where we can meet and negotiate our differences
-James Shapiro on Shakespeare in a Divided America
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You can’t get from a newspaper a fuller and deeper understanding of the forces that are really, really shaping our lives
-James Shapiro on Shakespeare in a Divided America
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1606 was one of the worst years for England in Shakespeare’s lifetime, perhaps the worst
-James Shapiro: The Year of Lear
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Shakespeare took this happy ending and transformed it into the most agonizing tragedy imaginable
-James Shapiro: The Year of Lear

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