Shakespeare is a biographer's nightmare. Not because the information about him is so overwhelming or incriminating but because it is so slight and so stubbornly innocuous. We forgive our great poets ...

The story is one of the most famous of all: two star-crossed lovers from Verona, struck by misfortune and divided by their feuding families, choose to die together rather than live without each other.

Revisions of Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage" speech, posted on February 24, 2004. These revisions were written in response to the same assignment given to "Shakespeare" in the article "Would ...

I surely can’t be alone in joyfully acclaiming Edward Hall’s all-male A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Brooklyn Academy of I surely can’t be alone in joyfully acclaiming Edward Hall’s all-male A ...

There’s one thing—and one thing alone—that Shakespeare couldn’t do. He couldn’t show war onstage. He could talk about it, he could examine it and debunk it. But for all the numerous battle scenes in ...

Although Shakespeare is the most famous-and lauded-writer in English, most adult readers, theatergoers and students would be hard pressed to admit they fully understand the complexity or complete ...

If "The Merchant of Venice" is one Shakespeare's better known plays lacking a film version, then Michael Radford's tony adaptation to some degree illustrates why. Polished production, prestige cast ...

"The first thing we do," one of the rebellious followers of Jack Cade famously proclaims in William Shakespeare's "II Henry VI," "let's kill all the lawyers!" The London of Shakespeare's time, however ...

Vpstart Crow is dead. Long live the Virginia Shakespeare Company. There's a new name on the local theater scene, although there is no new theater company. Rather, an old favorite saddled with a ...