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The translators of the King James Bible achieved their goal of producing a scholarly and (generally) nonpartisan Bible.

After the Holocaust it became impossible to produce the play with Shylock as audiences for centuries had known him. As literary critic John Gross noted, he need not have been a Jew, but he is a Jew for a reason -- a hate figure to be mocked and reviled for our amusement

If you wanted to throw a wrench into my theory about the cause of the Capulet-Montague feud in Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, one needs only point out that in the earliest version, Lady Montague does not, in fact, have the final death in the play. Benvolio does.”What?” you cry aloud. “How?

Two actors, two props and the convergence of two cultures are all it takes to create an urgent, poetic and spiritual re imagining of the rarely seen First

As the First Folio of his plays turns 400, might now be the perfect time for directors to get back to basics?

Theater offers an escape from life, and there is much to see this summer. Abbey Theater, Actors Theatre, MadLab and Shadowbox offer full slates.

NEW YORK (AP) — Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, all right, but not as...

Actors’ Theatre of Columbus will present two Shakespeare plays and two other classics during its 2022 season, which kicks off May 26 with "Hamlet."

Machine learning programs have recently made huge advances. Stephen Marche tested one against Shakespeare’s collected works, to see if it could help him figure out which of the several versions of Hamlet’s soliloquy was most likely what the playwright intended.

Arguably the most famous phrase in the English language, used, and abused, almost since the moment The Bard composed them. Hamlet is the archetypal inte...