A specialist in Shakespeare and the Early Modern period, James S. Shapiro is Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1985. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Public Library Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and the American Academy in Berlin. In 2011, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He currently serves as a Shakespeare Scholar in Residence at the Public Theater in New York City.
Books in order of publication:
Rival Playwrights: Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
The Columbia History of British Poetry as associate editor with Carl Woodring. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry Edited with Carl Woodring. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
Shakespeare and the Jews. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.
Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World’s Most Famous Passion Play. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000.
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. London: Faber and Faber, 2005.
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? New York: Simon & Schuster; London: Faber and Faber, 2010.
Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution Until Now, ed. James Shapiro, with a foreword by Bill Clinton. New York: Library of America, 2014.
The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606. New York: Simon & Schuster, October 6, 2015.
Shakespeare in a Divided America. New York: Penguin Press; London: Faber & Faber; March 2020.
The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War. New York: Penguin Press; 2024.
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