Shakespeare

Celebrate the solar eclipse with some of the best and worst ellipses in literature (and life).

 
By James Folta  April 4, 2024
The Hub

A hot new club lets you embrace your inner theatre kid.

By Brittany Allen  March 29, 2024
In Conversation

Phyllis Rose on Writing About Real People in Nonfiction, Making Your Diaries Public, and More

By Rumena Bužarovska  December 13, 2023
Shakespeare

Illustrator Neil Packer Goes Behind-the-Scenes of Folio’s Complete Plays of Shakespeare.

By Olivia Rutigliano  November 13, 2023
Roundtable

Why We Should Celebrate the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio

By Literary Hub  November 13, 2023
Shakespeare's First Folio

The 400th Anniversary: Look Inside Shakespeare’s First Folio

By Literary Hub  November 13, 2023
Shakespeare

Where Everyone is Hamlet: Staging Shakespeare as Political Resistance in China

By Vikram Nijhawan  November 13, 2023
Language

No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of “Ye Olde” in English

By Hana Videen  October 10, 2023
Shakespeare

On Shakespeare’s Two Heroic Friends that Saved the Bard’s Plays From Being Burned

By Gregory Doran  September 27, 2023
The History of Literature

James Shapiro on Shakespeare and America

By History of Literature  September 18, 2023
Read Smart

James Shapiro: Shakespeare Was NOT More Than One Person

By Read Smart  July 13, 2023
The History of Literature

The First Folio’s 400th Birthday: Shakespeare Scholar Unpacks Its Legacy

By History of Literature  June 12, 2023
Love Objects

Annihilation, Beauty, and Shakespeare: Is Juliet the Best Dead Girl?

By Sophie Duncan  June 7, 2023
Read Smart

Is Shakespeare the Ultimate Dead White Male?

By Read Smart  June 6, 2023
On Theater

How Hamnet the Play Rehabilitates Shakespeare’s Wife

By Andrew Quintana  May 10, 2023
Horror

What Teaching Shakespeare Taught Me About Writing Horror

By Nicholas Binge  May 8, 2023
The Hub

James Shapiro takes “Winner of Winners” Baillie Gifford Prize.

By Janet Manley  April 28, 2023
The History of Literature

Black Shakespeare: Ian Smith on Systematic Whiteness and Transforming the Way We Interpret Shakespeare

By History of Literature  April 24, 2023
What to Watch

The Lost King is a Jubilant Story of Historical Discovery and Overdue Recognition

By Olivia Rutigliano  March 31, 2023
The Hub

Literary baby names ranked from least to most cringey.

By Janet Manley  March 29, 2023
The Hub

What did Shakespeare mean when he wrote “let’s kill all the lawyers?”

By Olivia Rutigliano  January 25, 2023
The Hub

Shakespeare plays as Daily Mail headlines.

By Jessie Gaynor  August 18, 2022
Bugs

“I have drunk, and seen the spider.” On Swallowing Bugs in Fiction

By Daisy Hildyard  August 2, 2022
Inspiration

Why Writers Need to Confront and Create With Their Most Unpleasant Emotions

By Philip Schultz  June 8, 2022
Shakespeare

What’s In a Name? Tracing an Obsession with the Shakespeare Authorship Question

By Michael Blanding  May 31, 2022
Shakespeare

Buddhism’s Dukkha and Hamlet’s Dust: On Shakespeare’s Spiritual Wisdom

By Lauren Shufran  May 25, 2022
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