March 25, 2016 – It’s History in Five Friday, presented by Simon & Schuster — kicking off your modern weekend, with people from the past.  Today, we offer bring you some new discoveries on one of history's greatest authors: William Shakespeare. Yes, that Shakespeare. As incredible as it may seem, we're still learning about the man who brought us Hamlet, Macbeth, The Tempest and so many other immortal plays.

The man in the driver's seat of our time machine is James Shapiro, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He's the author of Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare, and the topic of our next episode: The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606. You can hear that interview recorded in the shadow of Shakespeare's Central Park statue .

History in Five Friday.

It's the perfect way to kick off your modern weekend... with people from the past.