She found it powerfully suggestive: If Chekhov, why not Shakespeare? If 20th-century Soviet oppression, why not the oppression of Roman Catholics in the reign of Elizabeth I and her Stuart successor?

3. Honor what makes Shakespeare Shakespeare.While we mess around with plot and structure, there’s an aspect of the work that we do hold rather sacrosanct: the use of language. We do a lot of ...

Citizens of the 21st century are well used to mass surveillance of the cyber variety, but a new book exposes just how prevalent spies and informers were in Shakespeare's life ... of this narrative ...

In the “The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606,” scholar James Shapiro describes the way the plot and other events of the day influenced the three important tragedies the Bard completed that ...

was the fact that Henry Neville was locked up in the Tower of London for his part in a plot to overthrow the monarchy — a pretty good reason to get serious. The backers of Shakespeare say this ...