Rare book collecting, a hobby historically maintained by eccentric billionaires and wealthy universities, is now taking on ...

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One year after opening, Perth Museum is to host an exhibition exploring the origins, myths and legacy of Shakespeare’s King Macbeth. Macbeth: An Exhibition traces Shakespeare’s 1606 play from its ...

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, wrote of an unspecified great matter of state said to bear directly on the Queen’s life.

These included Trilling and Schapiro. His Shakespeare book is dedicated to Raymond Weaver, his colleague at Columbia, with whom he shared an office. Weaver, says Lehman, had been “nagging” Van ...

Created by the late Joseph Papp in 1962, the Public Theater's series offers free, large-scale productions of works by William Shakespeare (as well as the occasional musical or non-Shakespearean ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

November 25, 2024 • Books We Love returns with 350+ new titles handpicked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Find 12 years of recommendations all in one place — that's nearly 4,000 great reads.

The 2016 Shakespeare’s tragedies coin, which displays a skull image on its reverse side, is especially sought after by collectors due to a certain mistake. An expert, who goes by the name Coin ...

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Celebrate your wedding with some of the most romantic quotes in literature with a little help from the Bard, in SoGlos's top picks of Shakespeare's most romantic readings. Get some wedding inspiration ...