Readers discuss the possibility that the person behind Shakespeare’s works was not the man buried in Stratford.
What two new books on the English Renaissance reveal about the appeal of speculative history
The evolution of English pronunciation has eroded much of the evidence of the Bard’s wit—but a new approach aims to bring some of his original wordplay back to life.
"What counts is that the critic should be really involved with a work; that he should follow the track of his curiosity into it just as long and as passionately as may be necessary."