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As You Like It, five-act comedy by William Shakespeare, written and performed about 1598–1600 and first published in the First Folio of 1623. Shakespeare based the play on Rosalynde (1590), a prose romance by Thomas Lodge. The play has two principal settings: the court that Frederick has usurped from his brother, the rightful duke (known as Duke Senior), and the Forest of Arden, where the Duke and his followers (including the disgruntled Jaques) are living in exile. Rosalind, the Duke’s dau...

Measure for Measure, a “dark” comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1603–04 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from a transcript of an authorial draft. The play examines the complex interplay of mercy and justice. Shakespeare adapted the story from Epitia, a tragedy by Italian dramatist Giambattista Giraldi (also called Cinthio), and especially from a two-part play by George Whetstone titled Promos and Cassandra (1578). The play opens with Vincentio, the benevole...

Sigmund Freud had his doubts. As did Malcolm X and Charles Dickens. And Mark Twain, Helen Keller, Anne Rice and Sandra Day O’Connor.

On Friday, Emma Smith from Oxford University visited UT to give a keynote lecture reflecting on Shakespeare culture in the age of slavery.

The centrepiece of the new exhibition, opening at Shakespeare’s New Place, is the Ashburnam First Folio, an original copy acquired by the Shakespeare Birthplace

The display, which marks the 400th anniversary of the Folio, includes a tiny notebook giving a 12,000-word commentary on the text.

The 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio. San Francisco’s new “Museum of the Future AI Apocalypse.” Compostable, potato waste-based cling film. Graphene-based sportswear from Umbro. Slack adds ChatGPT because why not? The world’s most disturbing videoconferencing display. Scientists discover how bacteria convert atmospheric hydrogen to energy—a potential new, clean power source. Goats are the secret to combatting California’s wildfires. Celebrating “G...

2023 marks the 400th anniversary of the publication the First Folio of William Shakespeare’s plays, which has since acquired the status of a cultural touchstone.

Why should you beware the Ides in the first place?

Events planned in UK and Ireland, including a British Library exhibition, to mark 400 years since complete works first published