On Friday a Hollywood director skilled at blowing up stuff onscreen is set to blow up 400 years of Shakespeare scholarship with Anonymous, a $30 million period-costume drama/thriller that traduces ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since Shakespeare’s time, some critics and scholars have been unable to believe that a country boy from Stratford-Upon-Avon, who ...
Only a few people think William Shakespeare, of Stratford-on-Avon, did not write the plays and poems on which his reputation is based. It’s a small fraternity of like-minded researchers, who comb the ...
Our cultural moment seems bent on not letting the good be. Instead, we must either bash past greatness or reconfigure it to suit our present fancies. Novelist Jodi Picoult argues in a new book that ...
Darren Freebury-Jones brings together William Shakespeare’s rivals, influences and collaborators - Getty Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? It’s unsurprising that Darren Freebury-Jones, a lecturer at ...
In the Los Angeles Times, a Shakespeare scholar and a screenwriter have come to literary fisticuffs over a new movie about the Bard of Avon. The movie is Anonymous, Roland Emmerich's new film (likely ...