James S. Shapiro

James S. Shapiro ( born 1955 in Brooklyn, New York City ) is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and is the author of non-fiction.

Life

Shapiro grew up in his native Brooklyn. He received his Bachelors degree in 1977 at Columbia University, a year later his master's degree and in 1982 he received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. After a few years at Dartmouth College and Goucher College, he transferred in 1985 to Columbia University. In the years 1988-1989 he was a Fulbright lecturer at Bar- Ilan University and Tel Aviv University; He served in 1998 as Samuel Wanamaker Fellow at the Globe Theatre in London.

Shapiro published about William Shakespeare's works and Elizabethan culture. He conducted in collaboration two National Endowment for the Humanities Institute on Shakespeare, edited in 1995 in cooperation Columbia Anthology of British Poetry and served in 1994 as associate editor of the Columbia History of British Poetry.

He received awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Huntington Library and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture for his publications and scientific activities. He received the Hoffman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship on Marlowe and 1997, the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference Award ( SCSC ). The McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Roland H. Bainton Prize awarded to him for his book Shakespeare and the Jews. Shapiro wrote for various journals, including for The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Book Review, The Financial Times and The London Telegraph. In 2006 he was appointed as a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow and as a Fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York City Library.

Shapiro won the 2006 Samuel Johnson Prize and in the same year the Theatre Book Prize for his work in 1599: a Year in the Life of William Shakespeare.

Works

  • Rival Playwrights: Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare. Columbia University Press, New York City 1991. ISBN 0-231-07540-5
  • Shakespeare and the Jews. Columbia University Press, New York City 1996. ISBN 0-231-10344-1
  • Oberammergau: the Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play. Pantheon Books, New York City 2000 ISBN 0-375-40926-2. ; German under the title You are the King of the Jews? The Passion Play in Oberammergau. dtv, Stuttgart 2000. ISBN 3-421-05369-3
  • 1599: a Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. Faber and Faber, London, 2005. ISBN 0-571-21480-0
  • Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? London, Faber and Faber, 2010 -. ISBN 1-416-54162-4
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