shakespeare in fiction and fact: grace tiffany

Who were the Doctors Fauci and Birx of Shakespeare's time? And how does Shakespeare represent physicians in his plays? These are two v...

A stereotypical sign of moral hypocrisy is the waving of a Bible. The phrase "Bible thumper" refers not to a genuinely inspired ...

What did Shakespeare think of angry mobs? To answer is not so easy. For four hundred years, Shakespeare readers have mistakenly extricated...

In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, when Shakespeare was writing his plays and living, for the most part, in London, pl...

This month, in our time of modern-day plague, I shall not write yet one more claim that Shakespeare wrote King Lear or Macbeth whil...

Shakespeare wasn't a socialist. He was a businessman. He wrote for money, and invested, and got rich. There is no biographical evidenc...

A post-colonially-minded colleague of mine once asked to visit my Shakespeare class, and I said, sure! He told my students that the re...