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Forever Shakespeare: The Making of an Icon

November 2, 2015 by Kay Randall

Editor’s note: As the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death approaches, five UT Austin scholars share how they celebrate his work and his ultimate staying power. In 10 years, people won’t care about Kim Kardashian’s face-contouring regimen or that she had 35 million Twitter followers. But William Shakespeare? Four centuries after his death he’s still […]

Doug Bruster

William Shakespeare’s Relevance in Today’s Society is Changing

April 24, 2014 by Douglas Bruster

If anniversaries are a good time for taking stock, Shakespeare’s 450th birthday on April 23 offers the perfect reason to ask about his plays and poems, and what the future may hold for them. The writings of this country boy from Stratford are legendary. Thoughts and images came so easily from his pen that other […]

English Professor Douglas Bruster. Photo by Marsha Miller.

That’s Shakespeare, With One ‘S’

August 14, 2013 by Jessica Sinn Leave a Comment

English Professor Confirms the Bard’s Hand in The Spanish Tragedy For centuries, scholars have been searching for answers to a literary mystery: Who wrote the five additional passages in Thomas Kyd’s “The Spanish Tragedy”? Mounting arguments point to William Shakespeare, but English professor Douglas Bruster has recently found evidence confirming that the 325 additional lines […]

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