In the almost 400 years since Shakespeare’s death, his words have been enlisted by an extraordinary range of historical figures. Even the Nazis tried to claim him as a ‘Germanic’ writer.
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The mob is a surprisingly clever thing.
Margaret of Anjou can still speak to modern women in power today.
A copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio of plays has been found in Scotland. While this is good news, a staggering 744 plays from Shakespearian London - at least two of them written by the Bard - remain lost.
Shakespeare’s use of dialect is a key argument used by those who stand by the traditional author. But these so-called “Warwickshire dialect” words are nothing of the sort.
Stratford-upon-Avon is beginning to resemble Disneyland.
A 400-year-old poem offers yet more evidence to suggest that William Shakespeare may have found at least some of his inspiration in cannabis.
Why Scotland should raise a glass to a certain Brummie Bill.
For whatever reason, objections don’t seem to crop up when directors tinker with the setting, costumes and conceptualizations of Shakespeare’s plays.
South African forensics may provide clues to the 400-year-old mystery of what was smoked in pipes found in Shakespeare’s garden.
Is there a place for Shakespeare in African schools, or is his time long past?
Obsessing about the bard’s dashing good looks won’t help us understand his works.
Centuries before the internet, Shakespeare became a global phenomenon.
This annual day of mass salivation is more than a little depressing.
As long as the history of English literature is taught in universities, the charm of the immortal poem “A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns will endure in China. I first came across the poem by the national…
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