March 15 once again marks the Ides of March, a date linked annually to doom and misfortune due to the assassination of Julius ...

"Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings," King Richard says to his surrounding minions as his monarchy slips away. On its face, that sounds unappealing. But as put into ...

In 1603, a Renaissance dramatist wrote a moving poem about his only son, who died of the plague at the age of seven. The poem calls his “lov’d boy” the “child of my right hand, and joy,” and his ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. “Equivocation,” the much buzzed-about new drama by Bill Cain about ...

Photographs and ephemera interwoven with personal essays, diary entries, and poems from more than seventy contributors. For almost 70 years, Shakespeare and Company, the English-language bookstore in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For being arguably the most influential storyteller in the English language, William Shakespeare is nearly absent in movies. Of ...

*‘ [E]rasure of identities in the racialised and patriarchal narration of history reinforces prescribed roles and power relations in society’* A new book by a feminist historian claims William ...

“I think studying history is maybe fundamentally a way of studying who has power and who doesn’t, and what are the ramifications of each,” author Marie Rutkoski said in an interview with The Crimson.

1800: "Romeo and Juliet," starring a Mr. Cooper and Mrs. Merry, plays at United States Theatre. 1835: National Theatre opens. Two days later, James Wallack and Emma Wheatley appear in "Hamlet." Also ...

For being arguably the most influential storyteller in the English language, William Shakespeare is nearly absent in movies. Of course, there are endless adaptations of and riffs on his work — ...