All posts tagged "William Shakespeare"

Theatre
NYC Fringe Report: Murder and Mayhem, California Style
March 27, 2026East Coasters rarely think of Los Angeles as a great theater town. But, as two ambitious...

Linguistics
Much Ado About Joss Whedon
January 20, 2026Is Joss Whedon's biggest year ever taking a second lap?

Theatre
Hamlet, starring Michael Sheen at the Young Vic, London
October 21, 2025The psychiatric setting also forces – or helps – the production into a particular vision of...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Is Inspired by Shakespeare
September 22, 2025The weekly listicle looks at movies inspired by Shakespeare while not being based on Shakespeare.
Movies
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September 21, 2025The Weekly Listicle looks at non-sequel movies with three in the title.
Blog-Theater
Target Margin Theater’s The Tempest
August 11, 2025The production focuses its energies on exposing its illusion-making apparatuses to such an extent that the...
France
Book Review: How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
June 26, 2025Born nearly five hundred years ago, Montaigne was one of the last great thinkers of the...
Biography
Book Review: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
May 19, 2025Beginning around 1800, the hunt started to find the “real” Shakespeare, the noble visionary who had...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth by Charles Beauclerk
May 12, 2025I would have thought Shakespeare in Love might have advanced our understanding of the authorship debate,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Conversation with Author and McSweeney’s Editor Paul Collins
April 3, 2025"I think most scholars tend to trust the First Folio more than anything else, not because...







