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 ...
William Shakespeare, often called the greatest playwright in history, created works that explore love, power, ambition, ...
But this vision of genius is a poor fit for many great artists, and it tends to obscure what makes them and their work ...
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 ...
In “The Riverside Shakespeare,” a magisterial compendium that has illumined lives and overloaded bookshelves for decades, “The Tragedy of Macbeth” appears in small print that runs for 27 pages. In a ...
“What if the most epic cinematic franchise of all time had been penned by the greatest playwright of all time? Wonder no more! William Shakespeare’s Avengers: The Complete Works reimagines all four ...
Who wrote Shakespeare’s plays? A definitive statement of authorship may be hard to come by, but evidence suggests that the bard did not write alone. He co-wrote The Two Noble Kinsmen with his ...
Early last year, doing research for a book, I started to spend more and more of each day thinking about that question. The thing is, it seems like we should know what he looked like – the greatest ...