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...emphasize - as Stratfordians do - that most of Shakespeare's plays were adapted from older works, what he lacked in experience he could have made up for in imagination. "The problem is that argument presupposes that plays from the period consisted of this hidden autobiography," says leading Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate. "That's a modern image of the writer as someone who puts his own experiences into his plays, a very romantic idea of writing. But it's just not how plays were written back then." (Read about England's 18th century Shakespeare hoax...
Marcyliena Morgan, a scholar of global hip-hop culture who was denied tenure under University President Lawrence H. Summers, will be returning to Harvard this January with her husband, Lawrence D. Bobo, a prominent sociologist of race...
...were a Marshall scholar at Oxford University in England. You write that your life began to unravel there. What happened...
...lament by Pakistani scholar Tarik Jan that Muslims were the rulers of India before the British came and should have been restored to power when the British left calls for some historical perspective. At the advent of British rule, the Mughal empire was in decline, and most of the subcontinent was under the sway of the Hindu Maratha empire. After World War II, the Indian independence movement was led by Mahatma Gandhi, a Hindu, and supported by people of all races and creeds. When independence was finally achieved, the new nation's founding fathers were predominantly Hindu. To their great...
Bredekamp, a scholar of both art history and the history of science, says this latest find shows vividly how art and science worked together in Galileo's mind. "It's not that Galileo used drawing just to illustrate the ideas he had already discovered, but that through the movement of his hand he became aware of what he was seeing," says Bredekamp. "Ideas come through drawing." That is something any doodler knows well. But few drawings have ever yielded ideas as revolutionary as those of Galileo...