R. P. Lister is a free-lance writer tiring in London. He is widely known for his light verse. For another scholarly dissertation on the transcendental will, readers are referred to page 62.
Hamnet imagines the inspiration for Hamlet as a tragic, punishing love story.
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.