On Dec. 5, 1623, a fashionable young man-about-town called Sir Edward Dering visited St. Paul’s Cross Churchyard, London’s main bookselling hub. There he bought two playbooks, a book in Latin and a ...

A new hybrid literary genre has been flourishing for the last quarter century: Call it the “Proust (or George Eliot, or Jane Austen or W.H. Auden) and Me” school of criticism. An author injects ...

Shakespeare has long been dismissed, with others in the Western canon, as a dead white male. Now, there’s another, worse charge against the bard — he created the concept of whiteness. Yes, instead of ...

Now here’s a period drama. William Shakespeare’s words and sexuality have long been the subject of speculation, but researchers believe their labor has finally confirmed the Bard’s love preferences.

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Shakespeare & Company: When Action is Eloquence is the first comprehensive ...

Review: John Bell, Some Achieve Greatness: Lessons on leadership from Shakespeare and one of his greatest admirers. With illustrations by Cathy Wilcox. Pantera Press, 2021. John Bell’s new book Some ...

While we can never know, it is widely considered that William Shakespeare was born on 23 April 1564. The conclusion has been ...