Todd Landon Barnes is Associate Professor of Literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey, where he teaches courses on Shakespeare, literary theory, and performance studies. His writing appears in the journal Shakespeare Bulletin, as well as in various recent anthologies on Shakespeare: Shakespearean Echoes, Weyward Macbeth, Hamlet Handbook, and the Arden Shakespeare’s forthcoming Julius Caesar: A Critical Reader.
Todd Landon Barnes
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Shakespeare in 2016
Over the last four centuries, we’ve reinvented Shakespeare to suit our purposes, much as Shakespeare borrowed from his past to do the same.1 2016 commemorates the four hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. It’s also a year forged in the aftermath of ISIS attacks in Brussels and Paris, Richard Dear’s attack on a Planned Parenthood center […]
