The BBC is looking for UK school students to take up the challenge of creating their own sixty second interpretation of Shakespeare. Please click here for further information on who can submit films ...

This 'Introduction' argues a case for extending memory studies with the study of commemoration, or of 'historical remembrance' (Jay Winter). Memory and commemoration play a vital role not only in the ...

Shakespeare Quarterly (SQ) is a leading journal in Shakespeare studies, publishing highly original, rigorously researched essays, notes, and book reviews. Published for the Folger Shakespeare Library ...

Professor Aaron Kitch takes a fresh look at William Shakespeare in his latest book, tracing the influence of classical, medieval, and early modern science on the playwright. Shakespeare maintained a ...

After an $80 million expansion, the Folger Shakespeare Library is reopening with a more welcoming approach — and all 82 of its First Folios on view. By Jennifer Schuessler Jennifer Schuessler has ...

Shakespeare's 'play within a play' questions the roles men and women should and could play in society. Beginning with a two scene introduction, The Taming of the Shrew opens with a drunk man being ...

Inscribed on the grand neoclassical façade of the Folger Shakespeare Library is the famed tribute to the playwright by his contemporary, Ben Jonson: “Thou art a monument, without a tombe, / And art ...

The BBC is looking for UK school students to take up the challenge of creating their own sixty second interpretation of Shakespeare. Please click here for further information on who can submit films ...