shakespeare in fiction and fact: grace tiffany

I recently read a mediocre thriller by Dave Eggers called The Circle. It's not a good book, but the premise is timely and intriguing. ...

To counter the barrage of absurd Tweets coming from various players on the U.S. scene, here are some eloquent and appropriate ones for cu...

About twenty years ago I wrote a book about Shakespeare and his biggest theatrical rival, a (mostly) comic playwright named Ben Jonson, se...

A friend who works in Washington tells me the only way people can understand current political craziness is to read Shakespeare. I know...

In Kalamazoo, Michigan, where I live, various churches and charities have been busy helping about 30 newly arrived Syrian families who...

A  ripple of alarmed confusion coursed through the Sheraton Grand Ballroom in Washington, D.C., yesterday when Professor Daniel Travotti, ...

Like many of my fellow Shakespeare professors -- like all of them, in fact -- I have students who like books or movies whose plots are bas...