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Cynthia Lewis
Cynthia Lewis is Charles A. Dana Professor of English at Davidson College, where she has been teaching Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, and creative nonfiction since 1980. She has published numerous articles and two books on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, the latest due out this summer: “The game’s afoot”: A Sports Lover’s Introduction to Shakespeare. Her creative nonfiction ranges in focus from American culture to personal essays and has been published in such venues as The Hudson Review, New Letters, The Antioch Review, Southern Cultures, The Massachusetts Review, and Charlotte Magazine. Between 2006 and 2016, four of her essays have been cited as a “Notable Essay” in the Best American Essays series. Her essay “Return Engagement: The Haunting of Hamlet and Dale Earnhardt, Jr.” won Shenandoah’s Thomas Carter Essay Prize for 2016.

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    What Happened to the Apple-Ipecac Pie?: The Coen Brothers and Shake­spear­ean Tragedy

    Cynthia Lewis / Issue 15.3
  • Non-fiction

    Body Doubles

    Cynthia Lewis / Issue 11.1

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