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 structure of the family unit--father, mother, twins, and slightly older daughter--offers every indication that the depiction is that of Shakespeare's nuclear family. Kislak Center for Special ...

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 ...

How Early Modern Playwrights Shaped the World’s Greatest Writer,” by Darren Freebury-Jones.

Written around 1592, William Shakespeare’s play “Richard III” follows the reign of England’s infamous monarch and charts the ...

Emeritus Professor Mousley’s main areas of academic interest are in literary theory, humanism and posthumanism, Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, and autobiography. He is the author of Literature ...