On Dec. 5, 1623, a fashionable young man-about-town called Sir Edward Dering visited St. Paul’s Cross Churchyard, London’s main bookselling hub. There he bought two playbooks, a book in Latin and a ...

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 ...

Now here’s a period drama. William Shakespeare’s words and sexuality have long been the subject of speculation, but researchers believe their labor has finally confirmed the Bard’s love preferences.

In general, an overdue library book is a pretty common occurrence — however, one that has been overdue for an entire century is definitely outside of the norm. The Paterson Public Library in New ...

Shakespeare has long been dismissed, with others in the Western canon, as a dead white male. Now, there’s another, worse charge against the bard — he created the concept of whiteness. Yes, instead of ...

A Jamestown native, Destro after working at the Jamestown Little Theatre and the Shoestring Players, studied theatre at State University at Fredonia before moving to Los Angeles, where he studied with ...

It almost got away from me. I was planning to use Dame Judi Dench’s book, “Shakespeare: The Man who Pays the Rent” (St. Martin’s Press, 400 pgs., $32 hardback) next month in this column, but then I ...