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Jeffrey R. Wilson

Jeffrey R. Wilson is a Shakespeare scholar at Harvard University and editor-in-chief of Public Humanities. He is the author of Richard III’s Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity: Shakespeare and Disability History (2022), Shakespeare and Game of Thrones (2021), and Shakespeare and Trump (2020). 

Ray Fearon plays Macbeth and Tara Fitzgerald plays Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare's Macbeth directed by Iqban Khan at the Globe Theatre in June 2016 in London, England.

Businesses Have a Lot to Learn From the Impromptu ‘Teaming’ That Happens in Theater

A Shakespeare scholar at Harvard University explains how the creative collaboration that happens in theater can be a model for companies developing innovative new products