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 ...

A Jamestown native, Destro after working at the Jamestown Little Theatre and the Shoestring Players, studied theatre at State University at Fredonia before moving to Los Angeles, where he studied with ...

A major new work of literary criticism by Professor Emeritus of English Dennis Taylor is drawing accolades from prominent Shakespearean scholars. Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation: Literary ...

William Shakespeare's wisdom still inspires individuals of all generations. His words transcend poetry; they investigate the ...

Was William Shakespeare, the most famous playwright of all-time, actually a faithful Jew? At first glance the question seems preposterous. Shakespeare is the author of one of the most famous ...

William Shakespeare had a son, Hamnet, who likely inspired one of his most famous plays and who died when he was 11 years old. Novelist Maggie O'Farrell was disappointed that more people weren't ...

Students in a Florida school district will be reading only excerpts from William Shakespeare's plays for class rather than the full texts under redesigned curriculum guides developed, in part, to take ...

The best bookstores are almost always the ones that aren't trying to be loud about it, and this hidden U.K. gem is as ...