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The Hatch and Brood of Time 10: Shakespeare’s Schools in the Present Day: A Review of Scott Newstok’s How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons From a Renaissance Education

The Hatch and Brood of Time Volume 10: November 30, 2020 By London Johns Newstok, Scott. “Front Cover.” Princeton University Press, 2020, press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691177083/how-to-think-like-shakespeare. Every morning, high school students across the country sit down at home, in front of desks or kitchen tables, headphones on....

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The Hatch and Brood of Time 9: Shakespeare in America

The Hatch and Brood of Time Volume 9: November 23, 2020 By London Johns There are few mentions of the American colonies in Shakespeare’s works. Throughout all of his plays, the word “America” appears only once, in The Comedy of Errors; Antipholus and Dromio of Syracuse mock a “spherical”...

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The Hatch and Brood of Time 8: Ballads and Folk Songs in Shakespeare's Plays

The Hatch and Brood of Time Volume 8: November 16, 2020 By London Johns Music is a key aspect of Shakespeare’s plays. All but one of his comedies and all but four of his tragedies included songs or stage directions about songs, and songs were even included in three...

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The Theses Talks

The Theses Talks #1: Bebe Thompson

Isabella Smeets sits down with Bebe Thompson, author of Statues of Liberty: Willy Meyer, William Halsted, and the Development of the Radical Mastectomy from 1880 to 1920 [https://yalehistoricalreview.ghost.io/statues-of-liberty-wily-meyer-william-halsted-and-the-development-of-the-radical-mastectomy-from-1880-to-1920/] . Isabella Smeets (IS): To start off, I was wondering what inspired you to write about the development of...

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The Theses Talks #2: Kelsea Jeon

Isabella Smeets speaks with Kelsea Jeon, author of "This 'Order' Must Be Annihilated: How Benjamin Austin's Call to Abolish Lawyers Shaped Early Understandings of Access to Justice, 1786-1819 [https://yalehistoricalreview.ghost.io/this-order-must-be-annihilated/]. Isabella Smeets (IS): Kelsea, I was wondering what inspired you to write...

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The Hatch and Brood of Time 7: Weighing Hamlet's Sources

The Hatch and Brood of Time Volume 7: November 9, 2020 By London Johns In 1596, William Shakespeare’s 11-year-old son Hamnet died. His cause of death is not known, though it is possible he died of bubonic plague. His father’s reaction to his death is also not known....