William Shakespeare

Torn Dresses, Frank Sinatra, Ghosts in the Loo: Judi Dench on a Lifetime of Playing Shakespeare

Judi Dench and the Actor and Director Brendan O'Hea in Conversation from Their New Book "Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent"

 
By Literary Hub  April 23, 2024
Women Writers

What Virginia Woolf Got Wrong About Lady Anne Clifford

By Ramie Targoff  March 13, 2024
Shakespeare's First Folio

In Praise of the Tangible Sacredness of the Printed Word

By Ed Simon  November 13, 2023
Baillie Gifford Prize

Rape As a Weapon: A Tragedy Both Ancient and Modern

By Christina Lamb  August 25, 2023
Shakespeare

How Performances of Othello Can Spotlight White Supremacy, Past and Present

By Farah Karim-Cooper  August 15, 2023
Cliche

Before They Were Cliches: On the Origins of 8 Worn Out Idioms

By Erin McCarthy & the Team at Mental Floss  June 30, 2023
Shakespeare

Doubting Shakespeare’s Identity Isn’t a Conspiracy Theory

By Elizabeth Winkler  May 15, 2023
Shakespeare

Hideous Shakespeare: On Courting Ugliness in Portraiture

By Lee Durkee  April 17, 2023
Shakespeare

How Did Shakespeare Kill (And Heal) His Characters?

By Kathryn Harkup  April 19, 2022
Criticism

On Melville, Mendacity, and Letting the Unknowable Find Its Way in Your Writing

By David Kirby  December 10, 2021
The Hub

A Nazi sympathizer has been sentenced by a court to . . . read more Jane Austen.

By Walker Caplan  September 3, 2021
Shakespeare

The Comical, Ominous Power of a Shakespearean Mob

By Robert McCrum  August 30, 2021
Psychology

Mapping the Cerebral: What Are Dreams and Why Are They Essential?

By Sidarta Ribeiro  August 16, 2021
What to Watch

The Literary Film and TV You Should Stream in August

By Emily Temple  August 3, 2021
The Hub

Which writers have the best tombstone inscriptions?

By Katie Yee  June 24, 2021
The Hub

7 absent fathers in fiction.

By Katie Yee  June 18, 2021
The Hub

Is the 300-year search for one of Shakespeare’s actual books over?

By Jonny Diamond  May 26, 2021
Reading Lists

In Praise of the Graceless Literary Exit: A Reading List

By KT Sparks  April 19, 2021
Quizzes

How Many of the 100 Most Famous Passages in Literature Can You Identify?

By Emily Temple  February 24, 2021
Love

25 Actually Pretty Happy Couples in Literature

By Literary Hub  February 12, 2021
The Hub

William Shakespeare has officially been vaccinated.

By Walker Caplan  December 8, 2020
The Hub

Read Louise Glück’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

By Walker Caplan  December 7, 2020
The Hub

Attention: the principal from Buffy just wrote a novel. It’s called Illyria.

By Emily Temple  November 17, 2020
The Hub

The new COVID trend? Apparently, it’s buying rare books.

By Walker Caplan  November 9, 2020
The Hub

A Shakespeare First Folio sold this week for $10 million.

By Corinne Segal  October 15, 2020
The Hub

Would a TV show in which Shakespeare’s characters all live in the same hotel be amazing or terrible?

By Emily Temple  September 8, 2020
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