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Rap Monologues, The Cuban Vote, How Shakespeare Saved My Life, and Everything That Never Happened each critique or celebrate Shakespearean plays.

First, complete, integrated corpus of this major Elizabethan writer and first critical edition of his collected works in over one hundred years, with major n...

Paul Dean reviews “Shakespeare and the Middle Ages” by Curtis Perry.

Talene Monahon's comedy is now running at the New Ohio Theatre.

Reading Shakespeare, like listening to great music, every time is like the first time, or, maybe, is the first time.

The Original King Lear By Kathryn Walton Most people today know the story of King Lear from Shakespeare’s tragic play. But the original story actually comes from the medieval period, and it actually has a very happy ending.  Shakespeare wrote his famous tale of the tragic King Lear sometime around 1605. Its complex characterizations, story, and poetics reflect all the brilliance of the early modern playwright. But Shakespeare was far from the first to recount the story of this tragic king. T...