Cynthia Greenwood

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Books and Selected Articles

Film Review

In Anonymous, Roland Emmerich Dwells in the Lunatic Realm of Oxfordian Lore

A Review of Director Roland Emmerich's Film, Anonymous, About Edward de Vere and William Shakespeare

Book Review

An Investigation into Forgery, Codes, and Misreadings of Early Modern History

A review of James Shapiro's Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?

Illuminating the Intellect of Our Greatest Play-Maker
A review of Jonathan Bate's Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare

A Family Affair
The Age of Shiva: A Bittersweet Tale of a Troubled Marriage

Theatre criticism

In Search of the Shakespearean Ideal
A look at the Shakespearean roots of two great operas - Beatrice and Benedict, by Hector Berlioz, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Benjamin Britten

Playbill Arts Feature

Portraits of Passion and Power
A Look at the Heroines of Two Great Operas

Theatre; literary criticism

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Shakespeare’s Plays
Everything you’d ever want to know about Shakespeare’s most popular and frequently performed plays.

Essay - History of Opera

In the Beginning
A look at The Coronation of Poppea and the beginnings of opera

Arts-related Investigative Report

Where Angels Fear to Tread
When Kilgore College staged Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, administrators learned there were limits to a liberal education in East Texas.