You may wish to sign up with Mark Van Doren, the great professor of English who lived from 1894 to 1972. In 1938, he wrote Shakespeare, which can be had in an edition from NYRB. The foreword is by ...

The middle phase of life, these works imply, is the time when people are most themselves, with the greatest abundance of skill and purpose that life will ever confer. Even Shakespeare saw midlife ...

Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

Middle-class children would always be able to access, for instance, the works of Shakespeare through trips ... “I’d abolish it overnight. It’s a complete waste of time and money.

There are so many fun things to do in Washington DC that planning a trip there can be a little overwhelming. So I’ve put ...

While DuckTales and Talespin work as broad adventure stories, Darkwing was created as a parody of the pulp heroes and comic book characters ... folklore and Shakespeare’s tragedies, especially ...

Mark Wiltshire, a University of York English Literature alumnus, is a Rare Books and Manusceripts Specialist at Christie's, London. As a medieval historian and lover of all things rare manuscripts (an ...

Below is a collection of responses from Stony Brook University faculty and students to Interim President Richard L. McCormick ...

An Indigenous History of Māori Art, Deidre Brown, Ngarino Ellis and Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, University of Chicago Press, 616pp, ...

With a little something for young adults, a little something for a more mature audience and lots of inside jokes for ...