If Shakespeare study today is a lively mix of wishfulness, mythology and scholarship, this may simply be because we don’t know what he looked like, and what we do know about him is unsatisfactory. It ...

How have Shakespeare's works become so deeply embedded in our culture? Why are they still being read today? How are they still relatable in modern contexts, having withstood the test of time? In Dr.

To many, William Shakespeare is considered the greatest dramatist of all time. His works—at least 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 narrative poems—capture the range of human emotion and conflict and have ...

metaphors of life that we find in stories have the power to shape our views of the world, ourselves, and our lives. In one of Shakespeare's most vamous speeches (rivalling "out damned spot" and "to be ...