In general, an overdue library book is a pretty common occurrence — however, one that has been overdue for an entire century is definitely outside of the norm. The Paterson Public Library in New ...

Sylvia Whitman, who now runs the shop, and Krista Halverson, who edited the book, discuss a new publication that tells an in-depth history of Shakespeare and Company. Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A ...

Shakespeare fans can book stay in Herefordshire farmhouse featured in Hamnet this spring - Stays at the Grade II-listed ...

In her moving 2020 novel, Hamnet, the Northern Irish writer Maggie O'Farrell explored the possibility that a real-life tragedy may have inspired one of the greatest fictional tragedies ever written.

LONDON (AP) — An engrossing account of “how Shakespeare became Shakespeare” has been named the greatest-ever winner of the U.K.’s leading nonfiction book prize. James Shapiro’s “1599: A Year in the ...

A 400-year-old spirit has been making its presence known. This voice from a long-gone past isn’t a Halloween haunt, though. It’s just never gone away. So is this an especially fruitful time for ...

Sarah Olive is a member of the British Shakespeare Association's Education Committee (a registered charity) and founding editor of the free, online magazine Teaching Shakespeare. As pupils head back ...

It almost got away from me. I was planning to use Dame Judi Dench’s book, “Shakespeare: The Man who Pays the Rent” (St. Martin’s Press, 400 pgs., $32 hardback) next month in this column, but then I ...

Shakespeare’s Tragic Art, by Rhodri Lewis (Princeton). This engaging study seeks to understand the “engine” driving Shakespeare’s tragedies, noting that no formal template binds “Hamlet” to, say, ...

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The book, 'Shakespeare’s Life of King Henry the Fifth,' was last checked out in 1923 Google Maps In general, an overdue library book is a pretty common occurrence — however, one that has been overdue ...