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Shakespeare, Muir Come Alive in Yosemite for Earth Day

May 11, 2017

The works of Shakespeare, perhaps more so than any in the western canon, have been subject to reinterpretation and reappraisal by generations of artists, scholars and laypeople.

Some, like Verdi’s opera “Otello,” are considered masterpieces in their own right. Others, most notably Thomas Bowdler’s much maligned, puritanical expurgation of Shakespeare’s works, have been roundly scorned and derided.

“Shakespeare in Yosemite,” performed on Earth Day weekend in the national park, has taken an altogether novel approach. Written, directed and produced by Shakespeare experts Katherine Steele Brokaw of UC Merced and Paul Prescott of the University of Warwick, the production recasts the Bard as “Shakespeare the Naturalist.”

Read about the show in Panorama.