Letters from juliet

Theatre: Twelfth Night or What You Will ...

Here’s how Jane Austen’s talent for storytelling continues to inspire TV and film versions of her novels

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

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

Muriel Spark’s irrepressible creative drive

A balletic counterpart to histories of royal women as whores or virgins