The bullying and abuse the Bard portrays in the torment of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was done by nine teenagers in South Hadley, Mass. against high school freshman Phoebe Prince.
Even in his comedies, Shakespeare had to make everything dramatic. And who loves drama more than sassy, gay men? In Shakespeare's "Othello," Desdemon...
The citation of sources belongs to the realms of journalism and scholarship, not art. Citation domesticates the work, flattens it, denudes, it, robs it of its excitement, risk, danger.
Much ado about something -- a bill of more than 2,000 pages, with sundry amendments of up to 383 pages. Both the legislation and its process reflect Macbeth's quip: "Confusion hath made his masterpiece."
The lack of adequate funding might be the single biggest thing that is wrong with our schools, but an additional and insidious problem is that the very best teachers are often not appreciated.
Glenn Beck hit two themes of interest to a psychologist in his keynote speech to a conservative audience at CPAC -- his idyllic family life, and his a...
I think we're in the midst of a linguistic revolution that will overshadow the one that William Caxton started.
Too busy basking in the first days of Spring to check the book reviews this weekend? Check out some of the highlights below. "Lonelyhearts: The Screw...
Without succumbing to Hamlet's paralysis, we nonetheless could benefit from more probes into "Who's there?" and moments where we stand and unfold ourselves.
In the face of perennial disappointment, the news that a new Shakespearean play has surfaced is good news indeed.
To Dennis Kucinich: You know as well as any one else that this current bill will save millions and that your voting against it will kill millions. Don't slit the throat of health care reform with your pen.
LONDON — Is this love's labor no longer lost? A scholar says a play written in the 18th-century is very likely based on a missing work by Willia...
"Beware the ides of March," a soothsayer tells Caesar in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar." The Ides of March, which takes place on March 15, is known as ...
My own meditation practice -- which facilitates clarity and focus -- has benefited incalculably from Buddhist and other spiritual websites, blogs, lectures, readings, videos and guided meditations.
There are many people I might turn to in the event of a broken heart, but Juliet Capulet is low on the list. How much wisdom could a teenage girl have...
William Shakespeare, now there was a guy who could put pen to paper. So powerful was his Romeo and Juliet that the heartbroken of today still write to...
It's no surprise that scrapbooking is enjoying a resurgence in the age of digital cameras, MP3 players and the e-Book. As the stuff of memory and cult...
Uncertainty prevails most on Supreme Court appointments. Hence we know what Elena Kagan is, but not what she "may be" as a Supreme Court justice.
LONDON — A British antiques dealer has pleaded not guilty to stealing a rare first edition of the works of William Shakespeare. Raymond Scott a...
Thriller, a remake of the 1983 Michael Jackson classic video, features startling performances, raw drama, and choreography that effortlessly rivals "High School Musical 3" and "Nine." Speaking of the latter, these performers don't need Armani to look good.
Hard Times is demanding, three-hour fare. For openers, six characters play some 24 roles, so keeping track of the drama, staged in Dickens' miserable Coketown, takes intense concentration.
Joe Johnston's remake isn't dreadful -- certainly not as awful as the commercials make it look. It's not a good movie, by any stretch -- but it could have been a lot worse.
The editors at the Poetry Foundation are celebrating Valentine's Day with a mix of classic and contemporary poems with love poems page.
NEW YORK — Call it Stratford-upon-Hudson. Or maybe the East River. Great Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company will take up residence at New York...
People are taken aback that I would write a book about depression and try to make it funny. Because funny and pain don't go together, right? Wrong.
