On Dec. 5, 1623, a fashionable young man-about-town called Sir Edward Dering visited St. Paul’s Cross Churchyard, London’s main bookselling hub. There he bought two playbooks, a book in Latin and a ...

A new hybrid literary genre has been flourishing for the last quarter century: Call it the “Proust (or George Eliot, or Jane Austen or W.H. Auden) and Me” school of criticism. An author injects ...

Shakespeare has long been dismissed, with others in the Western canon, as a dead white male. Now, there’s another, worse charge against the bard — he created the concept of whiteness. Yes, instead of ...

Four hundred years ago, in 1623, a book of Shakespeare’s plays was published. This wasn’t just any book: It marked the first time all of Shakespeare’s works were published together — no mean feat back ...

There are plenty of Shakespeare books on the market already, it’s true – but there aren’t many out there quite like this one. Originally intended to be a series of conversations between Judi Dench and ...

Now here’s a period drama. William Shakespeare’s words and sexuality have long been the subject of speculation, but researchers believe their labor has finally confirmed the Bard’s love preferences.

In general, an overdue library book is a pretty common occurrence — however, one that has been overdue for an entire century is definitely outside of the norm. The Paterson Public Library in New ...

PATERSON, New Jersey (WABC) -- Work at the public library in Paterson doesn't always grab a headline - but this time it is after a remarkable book return - 101 years and 8 months after the fact. It ...

It almost got away from me. I was planning to use Dame Judi Dench’s book, “Shakespeare: The Man who Pays the Rent” (St. Martin’s Press, 400 pgs., $32 hardback) next month in this column, but then I ...

Lycoming College’s annual James and Emily Douthat lecture series will this spring host Alan B. Farmer, Ph.D., for a talk ...