Blake Seitz is a writer who contributed cultural and literary commentary to The Weekly Standard between 2015 and 2017. His pieces for the magazine explored topics in the humanities, including classical education and Shakespeare.
When I say that Portraits of Shakespeare is the definitive history of visual depictions of William Shakespeare, it should not be taken as too high praise: There are only three images of the man that are likely contemporaneous with him. But Katherine Duncan-Jones, emerita fellow at Somerville…
When I say that Portraits of Shakespeare is the definitive history of visual depictions of William Shakespeare, it should not be taken as too high praise: There are only three images of the man that are likely contemporaneous with him. But Katherine Duncan-Jones, emerita fellow at Somerville…
The launch party for this book featured a reading from the Greek tragedy Ajax by Sophocles. Emmy-winning actor Reg E. Cathey played the tragic hero, brought to despair by his feeling that the Athenian military leadership had betrayed him, and by his sense of revulsion for an atrocity he had…