Shakespeare is England’s most celebrated dramatist and poet. His works have been translated into 80 languages, including Star Trek’s Klingon. He helped shape the English we use today ...
The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, on November 28, 1582. She was eight years older than him and ...
Admittedly, the subtitle is a silly misnomer, the definite article presumptuous. There is no shortage of biographies of Shakespeare, and many of them are good; an excellent one by Park Honan was ...
Some years ago, I gave a talk to the graduating seniors at a local school. Whatever I said that night — probably something about the importance of books and reading — has utterly vanished from ...
Not even an accessible biography, at that, but a systematic survey of his dramatic work ... And in this last testament of a lifetime teaching Shakespeare, Bloom has a typically extravagant point to ...
Olivia Hussey gained international recognition aged 15 for her role in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. She later tried to sue Paramount Pictures over the movie's nude scene.