Tag: Hamlet

  • Arts & Culture

    Shakespeare, the inventive conservative

    A new book by scholar Stephen Greenblatt probes topics that the playwright pushed to their limits: beauty and the cult of perfection, murderous hatred, the exercise of power, and artistic autonomy.

    4–5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    New meaning in the familiar

    Harvard Divinity School professor Peter Machinist encouraged students to alter their perspectives on education and life through defamiliarization.

    2–3 minutes