Marilyn Simon

Dr. Marilyn Simon is a Shakespeare scholar and university instructor. She is currently working on a book entitled "In a Mutual Flame: Coming Together in Shakespeare."

19 Posts

Little Liliths

Contemporary feminist thought is correct to identify the male gaze as the default way of seeing, but has largely overlooked the fact that the gaze places power squarely in the hands of women, not men.

Marilyn Simon

12 May 2023 · 11 min read

Game, Set, Match

Routinely reviled by contemporary critics as a celebration of misogyny, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ is among Shakespeare’s most misunderstood plays.

Marilyn Simon

24 Mar 2023 · 11 min read

Marching Backwards

Mary Harrington’s proposed solution to the excesses of modern feminism is an overcorrection.

Marilyn Simon

3 Mar 2023 · 13 min read

The Eyes of Another

Dostoevsky’s masterpiece, ‘Crime and Punishment,’ offers a radical reinterpretation of guilt and redemption.

Marilyn Simon

31 Jan 2023 · 7 min read

Adult Fantasy of Youth

A look back at Bertolucci’s 2003 film, The Dreamers.

Marilyn Simon

18 Aug 2022 · 13 min read

Fatal Vision: Joel Coen’s ‘Macbeth’

“I am in this earthly world, where to do harm / Is often laudable, to do good / Sometime accounted dangerous folly.” So says Lady Macduff in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Moments later, she and her entire family—innocents all—are slaughtered. The triumph of Joel Coen’s film adaptation is that it

Marilyn Simon

19 Jan 2022 · 7 min read