He was the greatest Western playwright of all time. His plays are still burned in our cultural memory and performed the world over. But William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the man, has remained an ...

William Shakespeare is one of the most revered English authors of all time, with hundreds of famous works all written in a relatively short time. Despite his status as arguably the most revered ...

But this vision of genius is a poor fit for many great artists, and it tends to obscure what makes them and their work ...

"Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?" by James Shapiro; Simon & Schuster, 352 pages. Only a few people think William Shakespeare, of Stratford-on-Avon, did not write the plays and poems on which ...

The notion that William Shakespeare did not write some or all of the plays attributed to him has been a constant debate for centuries, triggering numerous essays, films, TV series and plays. In ...

There’s a thought experiment called the “infinite monkey theorem” that says, given an infinite amount of time, a monkey that randomly hits keys on a typewriter will eventually reproduce any body of ...

Movie - Screener - Don’t Quill the Messenger TO BE OR NOT?: The Oxford Fellowship proposes that the 17th Earl of Oxford was the true writer of the Shakespeare canon. (Dragon Wagon Radio) Mention ...

Little information about William Shakespeare’s personal life is available, but from municipal records we can deduce that he was born in the English village of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of ...

OUR path through Shakespeare’s works and life has brought us near at least to the question of his own view of the value and functions of the former, and his intentions with regard to them. Most of his ...