News in Brief Which Shakespearean Ruler Doth Trump Most Resemble? He has recently been compared to both Julius Caesar and King Lear. Tom Jacobs
News in Brief Shakespeare the Social Scientist The Bard was an interdisciplinary thinker centuries before it was cool. By Tom Jacobs William Shakespeare. (Photo: Wikimedia… Pacific Standard Staff
Social Justice A Shakespeare Play You’ve Never Heard Of A new method of analysis finds Double Falsehood was very likely co-written by the Bard. Tom Jacobs
Environment The Shakespeare Fanatic Who Introduced All of the Bard’s Birds to America Over 100 years ago, Eugene Schieffelin set out to introduce every bird mentioned in Shakespeare's plays to America. Today, one of those birds is causing irreparable crop damage. Scott Keyes & Daniel Karp
Social Justice Retweeting the Classics Bookish joke-accounts—and the serious people behind them. Ted Scheinman