The Feast: an intimate Tempest
A look at a recent production at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, in association the Redmoon Theater.
All Stories About Shakespeare
It’s Time To Translate Shakespeare—Into Contemporary English
After 400-plus years, the approximate, half-understanding fog through which we hear much of the Bard’s language won’t do anymore.
The Man Behind the Plays
Who was Shakespeare, anyhow? Do even the experts really know? And why should anybody care?
Shakespeare the Brainiac
Four tomes from the Shakespearean assembly line plumb the mind behind the man.
Shaking a Stage
A Shakespeare scholar shows how the world makes claims on the Bard.
Maladjustments
Why ‘The Merchant of Venice’ and ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ should remain open to interpretation.
The Critic as Puck
Jan Kott writes about the exchange between life and drama so artfully that it sometimes appears that history and literature have performed his critical tasks for him.
Newspeak Shakespeare
A.L. Rowse cannot ruin the unique grace and style of Shakespeare’s language; but he taints it more than a little.
