The BBC is looking for UK school students to take up the challenge of creating their own sixty second interpretation of Shakespeare. Please click here for further information on who can submit films ...

William Shakespeare needs no introduction. It is impossible to imagine English literature without this literary giant.

Shakespeare Quarterly (SQ) is a leading journal in Shakespeare studies, publishing highly original, rigorously researched essays, notes, and book reviews. Published for the Folger Shakespeare Library ...

This 'Introduction' argues a case for extending memory studies with the study of commemoration, or of 'historical remembrance' (Jay Winter). Memory and commemoration play a vital role not only in the ...

The little starling makes a big impact on the US economy and ecosystem Birds feature prominently in Shakespeare's plays and poetry. But one of the bard's birds has become a major nuisance in the US.

Decades ago, I interviewed celebrated tenor saxophonist Von Freeman between sets at Andy’s Jazz Club in Chicago. It was the smooth jazz era and Freeman, of the post-bop school, was a traditionalist. I ...

Inscribed on the grand neoclassical façade of the Folger Shakespeare Library is the famed tribute to the playwright by his contemporary, Ben Jonson: “Thou art a monument, without a tombe, / And art ...

Shakespeare's 'play within a play' questions the roles men and women should and could play in society. Beginning with a two scene introduction, The Taming of the Shrew opens with a drunk man being ...

The BBC is looking for UK school students to take up the challenge of creating their own sixty second interpretation of Shakespeare. Please click here for further information on who can submit films ...