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 authors have been providing us with some intruiging insights on what Shakespeare means to them, and the wider culture today […]
Read MoreWe delve Into The Intro of author James Shapiro's chapter Toward A New Shakespeare Biography from Shakespeare Survey 58 (2005), to examine the challenges of writing the Bard's biography.
Read MoreTo honor the distance we've come and the things that have stayed the same in the 450 years since Shakespeare was born, we've recreated Romeo and Juliet in iMessages and Tweets. Two of the most famous fictional teenagers of the last four hundred years would have fit right in to our digital universe. If only Juliet got service in the Capulet crypt and Romeo had thought to check his phone.
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