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...company would put on stage. The combination of these factors inspired and challenged Shakespeare, and spurred his writing to be better than it had ever 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...
...political science, has joined the History Department of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, while Mehrangiz Kar, an Iranian human rights activist, journalist, and lawyer, is now a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Cogan University Professor Steven J. Greenblatt, who chairs the Harvard SAR program, said SAR is particularly relevant to Harvard because it is a human rights program that is also based on scholarship. “What’s special about this program—compared to other human rights programs—is that it?...
...terms of the happy conjunction of personalities that represent different interests and engagements, it’s a very nice one,” Greenblatt said of the marriage...
...work is very, very acutely sensitive to aesthetic issues,” Shakespeare scholar Stephen J. Greenblatt, the Cogan University professor at Harvard, said yesterday. “She’s a marvelous close reader of poetry. There are many qualities one would associate Larry Summers with, but an acute aesthetic sensitivity is not the first one that would come to mind...
...Showtime president Robert Greenblatt told Ridley he wanted Barbershop to be a kind of urban-comedy M*A*S*H--a sitcom that would take a hit movie in a new direction. Before Greenblatt took over at Showtime, his production company made Ridley's UPN drama Platinum, a savvy look at the hip-hop business. Ridley also wrote Undercover Brother, a 2002 send-up of blaxploitation movies. "He's a really funny writer but also very intelligent," says Greenblatt. "I thought he would bring the right combination of humor and analysis to the series...