On Friday a Hollywood director skilled at blowing up stuff onscreen is set to blow up 400 years of Shakespeare scholarship with Anonymous, a $30 million period-costume drama/thriller that traduces ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since Shakespeare’s time, some critics and scholars have been unable to believe that a country boy from Stratford-Upon-Avon, who ...
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The notion that William Shakespeare did not write some or all of the plays attributed to him has been a constant debate for centuries, triggering numerous essays, films, TV series and plays. In ...
What do Helen Keller, Sigmund Freud, and Keanu Reeves have in common? They all believe that Shakespeare didn't exist. Rather, they believe that the true genius behind Shakespeare's plays and poems ...
Our cultural moment seems bent on not letting the good be. Instead, we must either bash past greatness or reconfigure it to suit our present fancies. Novelist Jodi Picoult argues in a new book that ...
Did William Shakespeare have the smarts to be a literary giant? If indeed he was a superstar in his time, why did his death go virtually unnoticed? Is it possible for someone so literate to have ...
In the Los Angeles Times, a Shakespeare scholar and a screenwriter have come to literary fisticuffs over a new movie about the Bard of Avon. The movie is Anonymous, Roland Emmerich's new film (likely ...