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 ...

Stephen Greenblatt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar and literary historian, is one of the foremost authorities on ...

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Unfinished and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books" spotlights more than 100 texts written (or invented) by the likes of Shakespeare, Byron and Hemingway Ella Feldman Despite this historic ...

An curved arrow pointing right. We recently stumbled upon a new book titled "YOLO Juliet" — a modern telling of Shakespeare's classic "Romeo and Juliet." You've certainly never seen it like this ...

Fort Worth ISD adopted a new way of teaching reading and now elementary school students are learning to sharpen those skills ...

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 ...

For many of us, our first experience of Shakespeare was in the classroom, reciting lines from a book, often struggling with the language (and our nerves). Shakespeare’s plays were written to be ...

The BFG tells the story of a young orphan named Sophie who befriends a giant and they embark on a mission together to stop ...

A recent meeting of the Fredonia Shakespeare Club was held at the home of Karin Seager Cockram in November. President Ms. Sharon Klug called the meeting to order, welcoming the 15 members who were ...