Reading Shakespeare can feel like decoding a secret language. The words are strange, the sentences are twisted, and sometimes it’s hard to tell who’s insulting whom. In truth, Shakespeare's works are ...
Ann Keay Beneduce, Author, William Shakespeare, Author, Gennady Spirin, Author Philomel Books $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-22764-6 Prospero-like in their artistry, Spirin's dazzling watercolors dominate ...
A secret parchment has resurfaced, rewriting the Bard’s sketchy family history.
It's a cliche to say it, but I will anyway: "The more things change, the more they stay the same." Still, there is much truth in it. Really. The tumult we see in the world today echoes the tumult in ...
Shakespeare is a biographer's nightmare. Not because the information about him is so overwhelming or incriminating but because it is so slight and so stubbornly innocuous. We forgive our great poets ...
In the southwest corner of New Mexico, three miles below the sleepy little city of Lordsburg, sits what remains of the town of Shakespeare. The place had previously been named Ralston or Ralston City, ...
On a spring night in 2018, I stood on a Manhattan sidewalk with friends, reading Shakespeare aloud. We were in line to see an adaptation of Macbeth and had decided to pass the time refreshing our ...
This week at Backstage, we’re going all in on the Bard. One of the most prolific playwrights of his time who is still profusely celebrated and performed today, William Shakespeare’s work is both a ...
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