As Shakespeare's birth month comes to a close, we reflect on what he will always mean to so many of us.
Last weekend Shakespeare was certainly the most famous person on the planet, even more so than the Queen, Prince and President Obama. If you got as far as 23rd April without realising it was the...
This weekend, 400 years after his death, Shakespeare was commemorated all over the world. This in itself is a testament to the legacy left by the playwrite, who is recognised and loved by all. Our Shakespeare...
In their own idiosyncratic ways, academic Shakespeare journals are a way of charting the history of the analysis of Shakespeare’s legacy. Shakespeare Survey, the journal I edit for Cambridge University...
Michelle M. Dowd looks at how Shakespeare tackled the everyday issue at the time, and how that adds to his legacy today.
Shakespeare’s works have provided fertile ground for reimagining the nature of the book, from illustration, to typography, to format, to binding, to other aspects of physical form. The various forms...
Ronald R. Krebs explores if Donald Trump is the exception or the rule in the election’s national security discussion
Why has Shakespeare remained relevant over the past 400 years? And is his popularity dwindling? Will Cambridge University Press be acknowledging the 800th anniversary of his death as we have Some scholars...
Fiona Ritchie explores how women connect with the works of Shakespeare and have used them to make their voices heard throughout the ages
It should not be a big surprise that over at Cambridge University Press, we love Shakespeare on both sides of the ocean! We asked our staff: What is your favorite Shakespeare play…and why? Morten...
A comedy of errors gets even more complicated!
Gail Marshall, author of Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century and Shakespeare and Victorian Women explores why Shakespeare is still so embedded in our culture and has been through the ages...