Arts Jun 03 A Pulitzer Prize winner’s modern take on Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport, Alison Thoet
Arts Oct 02 Playing Othello as a Black woman in today’s America Amid nationwide protests against systemic racism, Jessika D. Williams sees parallels between racism in the play and in real life. By Alison Thoet, Maea Lenei Buhre
Health Apr 23 Why Shakespeare’s own finale remains a closed book In "Hamlet," William Shakespeare contemplated the fact that once a person dies, no living person knows where that departed soul goes. That same uncertainty hovers around the final hours of the Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon. By Dr. Howard Markel
World Jul 29 Watch 7:54 London skyline rising but the history below ground is far more fascinating Where once stood a 16th Century theater that first staged Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a new London complex, including a 37-story residential tower, is rising. As the skyline changes at a head-spinning clip, archaeologists, by law, are digging down, uncovering… By PBS NewsHour
Arts Apr 23 Celebrations across the globe honor Shakespeare 400 years after his death Four hundred years after his death, which occurred on this day in 1616, fans of William Shakespeare are finding myriad ways to be or not to be celebrating his life. By Kamala Kelkar
Apr 07 Rare Shakespeare ‘First Folio’ found on Scottish island By Lorna Baldwin It’s now one of only 234 known copies in the world, hidden for more than 100 years in the library at Mount Stuart, a vast estate on the Isle of Bute in Scotland. The “First Folio” is 36 of William… Continue reading
Apr 23 400 years after his death, Shakespeare’s sonnets live on in your smartphone By Anya van Wagtendonk After William Shakespeare died, on this date in 1616, his contemporary, Ben Jonson, wrote that “He was not of an age, but for all time.” Johnson was spot on. Continue reading
May 05 Shakespeare loses to the Wu-Tang Clan in vocabulary duel By Colleen Shalby “To be, or not to be” could have been the perfect start to a rap song. Some have even called Shakespeare the original rapper, his use of iambic pentameter the first dropped beat. So, it seems fitting that when comparing… Continue reading
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