The moral of this shakespearean tale? always trust your primary sources!

Riots and raccoons, haves and have-nots, Spanish and Swahili: Shakespeare in Central Park

The Americans are even more prone than the British to the biographical doorstopper as a way in which to honour the lives, minute by minute, of their famous dead. Walter Isaacson and Jon Meacham are am

Does a newly found Nicholas Hilliard miniature portray Shakespeare’s patron the Earl of Southampton?

I t takes all sorts. Some readers, for ...

Samuel Pepys’s self-incriminating diaries

Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern ...