shakespeare in fiction and fact: grace tiffany

Shakespeare had something to say about every subject, though what he had to say was mediated by the voices of characters who were sometime...

To get older, which means to live, is to be increasingly beset by nostalgia. It's easier for kids, whose lives are constantly pushi...

Let's pause at the outset to consider the grammar of my title. Admire, admire! Grammar's not everything, but it's the start of...

It's Shakespeare's birthday again, and to celebrate, my students are taking a test on The Tempest . Lest they be less than ent...

  Kalamazoo Community Playhouse director Jerry Eaton is all about pushing the envelope. This man of the theater -- whom DNA evidence has...

I've taught at four universities – two private, two public – over a period of almost thirty years, and during this time I've enco...

Hosts of BBC television programs about Shakespeare love to list words Shakespeare supposedly made up ("assassinate," "accom...