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...been. Shapiro’s opus comes at a high-water mark for the continuous tide of Shakespeare scholarship. Last year, Stephen J. Greenblatt, who holds the Cogan university chair in the humanities at Harvard, penned “Will in the World,” a Pulitzer Prize finalist. While Greenblatt offers a sweeping portrait of the Bard’s life, Shapiro focuses on Shakespeare in the year that the playwright turned 35. In fact, Shapiro devoted five years of his life to a single year of Shakespeare’s. Like a detective sifting through a historical...
...greatly his life and writings,” Damrosch says. “This book is about who he was, and the themes that it carries throughout are relevant and fascinating.” The National Book Foundation seems to have agreed. Damrosch says that the foundation often selects finalists that didn’t originally receive sufficient attention from critics. “Magazines that didn’t make space for reviews for my book before are taking a second look,” Damrosch says. All the finalists will gather in New York, November...
Gustavo A. Cardenas ’06, also a finalist, said that if he were elected, he would “like to get started with all the senior events early. In years past, I’ve heard people say, in March, ‘I went to senior bar and I didn’t know anybody there,” and I don’t want that to happen again...
...Another finalist, John “Jack” P. McCambridge ’06, wrote in an e-mail yesterday that he believes that the Senior Class Committee should aim to include “anyone who wants to help shape their senior year, not just the Marshals” in its planning process...
Lindsey E. Gary ’06, who is also a finalist, said that any of the 16 remaining candidates would make a “great” Marshal. “I really think that the people that made it to the second round are the type that will follow through with the responsibilities of the job,” Gary added...