From Harvard Magazine, Stephen Greenblatt on Writing as Performance: Revealing "the calculation that underlies the appearance of effortlessness". A review of This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare and Performance Then and Now by David Bevington. A review of Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright Into the Bard by Jack Lynch (and more). Fun with the posthumous reputation of Ann Hathaway: A review of Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer (and more and more and more and more and more and more). This mire of maybes tells us nothing about Shakespeare's true love: Try to prove an unprovable biographical theory and you end up spouting nonsense. A Space for Us: In literary MySpace, Shakespeare and Ovid mingle with authors masquerading as their characters. 

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