Reading Shakespeare can feel like decoding a secret language. The words are strange, the sentences are twisted, and sometimes ...
Shakespeare is at the heart of English-speaking civilization. The Bard was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, which is about as far inland as you can get in his “scepter’d isle.” ...
To see or not to see… that is a silly question! Take a fast, furious, and side-splitting sprint through the Bard’s best (and ...
Based on true events, Shakespeare goes slapstick with a screwball “Midsummer Night’s Dream” movie turned upside down.
Inverting the traditionally masculine-leaning nomenclature of Aeschylus’s Oresteia trilogy and Shakespeare’s sprawling Henriad, Avant Bard savant Séamus Miller calls his adaptation “The ...