Shakespeare 4-ever
Sal Robinson
The plays can be ripped up, recast, and staged in surprising locales… Read more »
The plays can be ripped up, recast, and staged in surprising locales… Read more »
Long held as the patron saint of sensitive bookish types everywhere, Morrissey is well known for the wealth of literary allusions in his lyrics. From the opening verse of “How… Read more »
Canadian writer Ryan North, the creator of Dinosaur Comics and writer of the comic series Adventure Time, has launched a project on Kickstarter that lets you explore one of Shakespeare’s most iconic… Read more »
Over the years, an impressive array of the world’s greatest talents has performed the works of Shakespeare on stage and screen. Think Sarah Bernhardt in Hamlet, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard… Read more »
If the Folger Library’s ebooks and TouchPress’ sonnets app haven’t satisfied your thirst for Elizabethan apps, never fear — the Shakesperience is here. I instantly fell in love with this project before… Read more »
The Toronto International Film Festival wrapped up this weekend, and thanks to NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, I heard about a couple literary film adaptations that really seem worth… Read more »
Wordsmiths, obviously, should know how to sting other writers. But some have proven especially good at it. Herewith, the ten historic barbs we think the most notable and the story… 1 / Read more »
Digital publisher TouchPress, which drew strong praise for its iPad app for T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, is launching a new literary app, this time for William Shakespeare’s sonnets. The… Read more »
The Folger Shakespeare Library has been publishing William Shakespeare’s plays for years, and it announced this week that it’s releasing its highly popular New Folger Library editions as e-books. Widely… Read more »
Here’s an argument that always ruffles some feathers: do the users of a language create or follow its rules? Since the codification of languages began—the 16th century, if we’re talking… 2 / Read more »