Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

Tennessee Shakespeare Company will host its 16th annual Children’s Literacy Gala in May, “American Celebrity Poetry-Slam” ...

The actor, on a hot streak after “Wicked,” takes on his biggest stage role to date. In London, he plays Shakespeare’s ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

The English Touring Opera is set to return to York Theatre Royal with two new operas, each with a Shakespearean element.

Love is 'an ever-fixèd mark.' Kate Moncrief and Brendon Fox - No impediments to this marriage of true minds, true love ...

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Like most people, I was introduced to Shakespeare through the half-hearted group reading of his texts in a high school English class. There, the old-fashioned language and poetry was difficult to ...

It’s definitely on my bucket list to one day visit the famous playwright’s home town of Stratford-upon-Avon. And now I know ...

The Phoenix theater troupe is staging "The African Company Presents Richard III," the true story of Black actors determined ...

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: ...

You may wish to sign up with Mark Van Doren, the great professor of English who lived from 1894 to 1972. In 1938, he wrote Shakespeare, which can be had in an edition from NYRB. The foreword is by ...