20+ hour, 32+ min ago  (523+ words) Written by Jerm Warfare on April 8, 2026. Posted in Current News In my previous podcast with Robert Frederick, of The Hidden Life Is Best, he dismantled pretty much everything I thought I knew about William Shakespeare Basically, Shakespeare existed, but that's…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (1236+ words) Although we know it won't be long before we return to the spring and the light, this time of the year can seem very dark indeed. February can be the most severe month of the winter, and it's particularly hard…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (907+ words) Maggie O'Farrell's 'Hamnet' and its 2025 film adaptation draw extensively on Virgil's 'Georgics', showing how the classical tradition continues to illuminate enduring human questions. The film's version of Shakespeare's tutoring scene improves on the Latin of the novel. Instead of incarcerare,…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (418+ words) A WINSFORD historian has published a new book looking at the life of a Cheshire woman who could have been 'Shakespeare's Dark Lady'. Since retiring from a career in public services, Tony Bostock, who lives in the Swanlow area, has…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago  (236+ words) A new book by the RSC and Harper Collins explores Shakespeare's fiercest female characters and is available from 23 April 2026. Shakespeare's women are bold, brainy, mischievous " and sometimes downright wicked. These women have been given a platform of their own in…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago  (490+ words) From Thursday, March 26 to Friday, March 27, students camped out in Upper Tarble to complete Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" from start to finish. After months of organizing, 63 students, faculty, and community members traded off reading chapters, taking a total of 23-and-a-half…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1225+ words) By Adam Garcia | Published 10 seconds ago Shakespeare often shows up in classrooms, where students wrestle with words that feel strange now. Yet here's something odd " those very phrases they struggle with? They speak to them daily, never knowing the source....

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (819+ words) Excellent new "must-have" guide to Ibsen and his plays Steadfast Ibsen fans and newbies to the famed Norwegian playwright's works will equally enjoy former Open University lecturer David Irvin's comprehensive and entertaining new book. Its publication couldn't be more timely…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (150+ words) Posted by Stage Talk | 28 Mar 2026 "What's in a Name? How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare' by Susan Dwyer Amussen Manchester University Press 2026 Reviewed by Andrew Hilton These are fundamentally conspiracy theories; they all posit a conspiracy of silence and subterfuge…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago  (384+ words) In early 1902 Shakespeare was introduced to a small but enthusiastic group of Napans by a Miss Klink of Berkeley, California. Although written in the style of that era, Edwardian eloquence, the Napa Daily Journal review of this event adeptly illustrates…...