Bard bashing has become something of a national sport, says Robert McCrum, and the latest attempt to rewrite the legacy of ...

Elizabeth Siddal's tragic life as a muse and model and Christina Rossetti’s poetry, expose the Pre-Raphaelite era’s depiction ...

You don't get this much swagger by holding back your insults. Image via Wikipedia. William Shakespeare gave the English ...

Montgomery Parks and Recreation Department is hosting its annual Summer Program Registration Event on April 5 from 10 a.m.-1 ...

Shakespeare’s leanest tragedy gets a starry, headlong production that embraces the action but misses the mystery.

The new FX series Dying for Sex stars Michelle Williams as a stage 4 cancer patient on a frantic quest to figure out what ...

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal are megastars, but that doesn’t solve the problems of this maddeningly bland production ...

The poem “Joan our Icon” is reprinted with kind permission from About Now by Richard Reeve (Maungatua Press, $25), named by poetry czar Nick Ascroft in ReadingRoom in December as the best collection ...

“Gone is the age of satire,” the speaker says, but this very poem, worthy of Swift, demonstrates that satire is, if dangerous ...

An insomniac’s musings on World Sleep Day, Shakespeare’s obsession with sleep, Keats’ poetic drowsiness, Murakami’s soporific ...

The truth is that however I choose to express myself will not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then ...