Reading Shakespeare can feel like decoding a secret language. The words are strange, the sentences are twisted, and sometimes it’s hard to tell who’s insulting whom. In truth, Shakespeare's works are ...

A new hybrid literary genre has been flourishing for the last quarter century: Call it the “Proust (or George Eliot, or Jane Austen or W.H. Auden) and Me” school of criticism. An author injects ...

Theodore B. Leinwand, a professor of English at the University of Maryland at College Park, examines the process of reading Shakespeare, using John Keats’s well-documented studies of the Bard as a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. In more ways than I can count, Shakespeare isn’t just a ...

On a spring night in 2018, I stood on a Manhattan sidewalk with friends, reading Shakespeare aloud. We were in line to see an adaptation of Macbeth and had decided to pass the time refreshing our ...

Perhaps you’ve been to Shakespeare in the Park before, but hast thou ever heard the fine and gentle words from those festivals uttered by… Sir Patrick Stewart?! Whilst in the midst of a worldwide ...