You may wish to sign up with Mark Van Doren, the great professor of English who lived from 1894 to 1972. In 1938, he wrote Shakespeare, which can be had in an edition from NYRB. The foreword is by ...

A recent meeting of the Fredonia Shakespeare Club was held at the home of Karin Seager Cockram in November. President Ms. Sharon Klug called the meeting to order, welcoming the 15 members who were ...

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The Shakespeare Project put on their second community show of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” at the Ernest Stone Performing ...

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Not even an accessible biography, at that ... His problem is that ‘life itself has become a naturalistic unreality, partly because of Shakespeare’s prevalence.’ But if Shakespeare’s consummate ...