William Shakespeare (1564–1616), who needs no introduction on a poetry page, was considered the greatest English poet — and perhaps one of the greatest poets of any language — to put pen to paper. The ...

Shakespeare is a biographer's nightmare. Not because the information about him is so overwhelming or incriminating but because it is so slight and so stubbornly innocuous. We forgive our great poets ...

CHICAGO - What if Shakespeare had never become Shakespeare? Heaven forfend, but that was the thought running through my mind while watching the stage adaptation of “Shakespeare in Love” – on the ...

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Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook That’s all loosely paraphrased from the Bard himself — loosely to the point when it’s no longer ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Tariro Mzezewa When Caroline Randall Williams’s book of poetry “Lucy Negro, Redux” was published in 2015, she hoped its words would transcend the ...