Holiday Hours: The Folger is closing at 4:30pm on Dec 24 and Dec 31. We are closed all day on Dec 25 and Jan 1. Since William Shakespeare lived more than 400 years ago, and many records from that time ...
Again, a gap in the records leads some scholars to refer to Shakespeare’s life between 1585 and 1592 as 'the lost years'. By the time he reappears again, mentioned in a London pamphlet ...
Is the Bard being cancelled? That's the fear in the US where his plays are increasingly rarely staged and suffering a backlash from race and gender campaigners and students.
the Royal Shakespeare Company was founded in its current form by Peter Hall in 1961. For a time, it transferred shows to Broadway with enough frequency that, in 1984, the critic Frank Rich wrote ...
Each locality mentioned in Shakespeare’s plays and poems was carefully described ... was sure that it was “one of the monumental works of all time.” Determination and scholarship are ...
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