Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ illuminates an existential truth revealed by the Los Angeles fires
Theater critic Charles McNulty writes on how Shakespeare, and 'The Tempest' in particular, is helping him bear witness to the ...
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About Shakespeare - Shakespeare's life and inspirations
FEMALE PRESENTERBut it wasn’t just the Royals that influenced Shakespeare’s plays.[PERSON IN BACKGROUND HEARD SHUSHING]Most playwrights borrowed from history books or older stories.And those ...
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Lend Me Your Ears
Readers and audiences have turned to Shakespeare's greatest plays for their ... Only for Slate Plus members, Isaac talks to Slate books and culture columnist Laura Miller and Washington Post ...
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Women's Prize for Fiction: Maggie O'Farrell wins for Hamnet, about Shakespeare's son
It is clever too. Shakespeare is never named. This is a book about a woman and her three children - and their lives are vividly imagined. And it is timely. Plague killed Hamnet in 1596 and there ...