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.

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 ...

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 400-year-old spirit has been making its presence known. This voice from a long-gone past isn’t a Halloween haunt, though. It’s just never gone away. So is this an especially fruitful time for ...

In his 20 books published since 1973, Peter Conrad has led readers to insights they could hardly have stumbled across on their own, whether the matter is literature, history, movies, opera, mythology, ...

Shakespeare is not that hard to understand. Sure, the language is, well – old – and the grammar is, well – old – and that iambic pentameter thing is a little disconcerting…you feel like you’re on a ...

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 ...