Which is Shakespeare’s timeliest play—the one that best mirrors our present moment? This is a perennial question, and perhaps a silly one, but we might begin an answer ...
Daniel Swift
Daniel Swift’s most recent book is The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017). He teaches at the New College of the Humanities in London. 
Caliban Blues
Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed is one of hundreds of rewritings of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. The adaptations began just over a decade after its first performance, in 1611, and for the past four ...