A biography of Shakespeare's First Folio is small cause for celebration on the 400th anniversary of the bard's death, writes Stuart Kelly Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you ...

Who was William Shakespeare, really? What was he like as a person? George Bernard Shaw once quipped that “everything we know about Shakespeare can be got into a half-hour sketch,” but if you limit ...

If you have never read a book about William Shakespeare, please read this one: “Shakespeare: A Life,” by Park Honan (Oxford University Press, 450 pages, $39.95). It’s an exceptional work about a man ...

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Learn all the basics about the life of Warwickshire's most famous and loved playwright, from his birth right through to his death. Shakespeare literally invented 1,700 words in the English language.

There Was a Starre Daunst, and Under That Was I Borne William Shakespeare is popularly supposed to have been born on 23 April 1564, or St. George’s Day. The date may in fact have been 21 April or 22 ...

A partial biography about a year in the life of legendary playwright William Shakespeare has won the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. American professor James ...

In Beatrice and Benedick, Shakespeare gives us two characters who wield wit like armor. Their verbal jousting delivers comedy ...

At their best, Shakespearean biographers are like great jazz musicians, able to take a few notes of an old standard and spin them into dizzying riffs of conjecture. At their worst they reshuffle old ...

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