The Bloomsbury Group and Shakespeare, with Marjorie Garber
b'We talk with Harvard Professor Marjorie Garber about how modernist writers of London\\u2019s Bloomsbury Group made Shakespeare their own. Garber\\u2019s most recent book\\u2014her twentieth\\u2014is Shakespeare in Bloomsbury. In it, she traces the influence of Shakespeare on the members of the Bloomsbury Group, that circle of early 20th-century intellectuals included novelists Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster, painter Vanessa Bell, director Dadie Rylands, critic and biographer Lytton Strachey, economist John Maynard Keynes, and others. She tells Barbara Bogaev about the threads of Shakespeare that run through Woolf\\u2019s novels, how Lytton Strachey changed our perspective on Shakespeare\\u2019s late plays, and what got her interested in the Bloomsbury Group in the first place.\\n\\nMarjorie Garber is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. Shakespeare in Bloomsbury is available from Yale University Press. Garber is the inaugural Scholar in Residence of Washington, DC\\u2019s Shakespeare Everywhere Festival, happening across the city this fall. Join Garber in-person for five free public lectures through November 16. Learn more at shakespeareeverywheredc.com.'