By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

So You Haven't Read the cursed story of Macbeth?! Well, pull up a seat and get ready for some epic Shakespearian burns, mystical tales, and of course death! As we break down and explain just what ...

The sort of throngs you’d expect for a generational prize fight—all of them hoping to get a ticket to the most sensational ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

In 2024, the Lancaster Shakespeare Theatre presented its first play that wasn’t written, or inspired, by William Shakespeare.

The first performance of UCR's staging of “Macbeth” will be Feb. 13 at 8 p.m. in the Studio Theatre. Additional performances ...

Forget Hamlet, Lear or Macbeth – the Bard saved his sharpest psychological insights and finest poetry for Richard II ...

Art has always drawn inspiration from experience, be it the physical world perceived by the senses or more abstract aspects, ...

Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

In 1938, he wrote Shakespeare, which can be had in an edition from NYRB. The foreword is by David Lehman, a poet and critic born in 1948. Among Van Doren’s students, in the flesh, were Lionel ...

They generally don’t get on well. Another, the product of revisionist scholarship, is a crypto-Catholic, socially conservative Shakespeare. This is the bard whom Clare Asquith makes her subject in ...