A few years ago at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one of the school’s deans greeted a group of incoming freshmen with ...

Ming-Trent is not the first or last to credit The Swan of Avon with saving his life. But based on all those who also helped save him so he can thrive today, there is no doubt that Shakespeare, among ...

New book claims Shakespeare was actually Emilia Bassano, a dark-skinned Jewish woman poet. Author argues the famous playwright's identity has been wrong.

Hawks offered women both real and symbolic means to express gender, power and status within a male-dominated world.

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Last winter, when I found myself in that cold, dark place that comes after the spell of the holidays but before spring ...

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“When they give me half a pound of meat on top of the tortilla, I do not object.” ...

The School of Night is a haunting, meticulous masterpiece that confirms the writer status as a major literary force.

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Asides on the big contemporary themes of Macbeth, such as kingship, blood, treachery, deceit and the supernatural, are all ...