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Excerpt: Fools and Mortals by Bernard Cornwell
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Excerpt: Fools and Mortals by Bernard Cornwell

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“Fools and Mortals,” a new novel from New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, tells the story of the first production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in Elizabethan England, from the perspective of William Shakespeare’s younger brother Richard.

Usury and 'The Merchant of Venice': An excerpt from 'London's Triumph' by Stephen Alford
London's Triumph by Stephen Alford
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Usury and 'The Merchant of Venice': An excerpt from 'London's Triumph' by Stephen Alford

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This excerpt from “London’s Triumph” by Stephen Alford looks at the Elizabethan understanding of usury, seen through Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.”

Making Shakespeare Pop
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Making Shakespeare Pop

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Austin Tichenor Reed Martin

The tricks of this pop-up Shakespeare book, written by the Reduced Shakespeare Company and illustrated by Jennie Maizels, are a perfect way to express the theatricality of Shakespeare’s plays.

Excerpt from Dunbar: Edward St. Aubyn retells King Lear
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Excerpt from Dunbar: Edward St. Aubyn retells King Lear

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In “Dunbar,” a new novel by Edward St. Aubyn that retells the Shakespeare play “King Lear,” Henry Dunbar makes the mistake of handing over control of his global corporation to his eldest daughters, who bribe a doctor to declare him…

Rome’s encounter with Egypt in Antony and Cleopatra
Rome and Egypt
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Rome’s encounter with Egypt in Antony and Cleopatra

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In this excerpt from “Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy,” Paul Cantor writes about the Romanization of Egypt and the Egyptization of Rome in “Antony and Cleopatra.”

Richard Burton, Shakespeare, and the search for the source of the Nile
Shakespeare in Swahililand
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Richard Burton, Shakespeare, and the search for the source of the Nile

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When European explorers first began traveling into the interior of the African continent, they brought Shakespeare with them. This excerpt from Shakespeare in Swahililand, written by Edward Wilson-Lee, relates the expedition of Richard Francis Burton and his search for the…

Rosalind: Shakespeare's Immortal Heroine - an excerpt
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Rosalind: Shakespeare's Immortal Heroine - an excerpt

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Esther French

Read an excerpt from “Rosalind: Shakespeare’s Immortal Heroine” by Angela Thirlwell, in which she traces the performance history of “As You Like It” and interviews famous actresses who have played this role onstage.

A night at Hamlet's castle, followed by a debut novel
If We Were Villains
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A night at Hamlet's castle, followed by a debut novel

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This debut novel by M.L. Rio takes place at a fiercely competitive school where the acting students only perform Shakespeare.

Q&A: Tracy Chevalier on New Boy, her retelling of Shakespeare's Othello
Tracy Chevalier New Boy
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Q&A: Tracy Chevalier on New Boy, her retelling of Shakespeare's Othello

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Read this Q&A with Tracy Chevalier about her new novel New Boy, which retells the story of Shakespeare’s Othello and is the latest book in the Hogarth Shakespeare series.

Taking Hamlet around the globe
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Taking Hamlet around the globe

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To commemorate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth in 2014, Shakespeare’s Globe in London sent a group of actors on a two-year tour to perform Hamlet all around the world. Dominic Dromgoole, the Globe’s artistic director who directed this traveling…

12 contemporary YA novels that retell Shakespeare
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12 contemporary YA novels that retell Shakespeare

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Are you a fan of YA novels? Young adult literature is booming right now, from contemporary sob-fests like The Fault in Our Stars to action adventure series like The Maze Runner. And with Shakespeare a staple of the high school classroom, it makes…

Off the Shelf: A Shakespearean Botanical, The Battle of Agincourt, Year of the Fat Knight, and more
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Off the Shelf: A Shakespearean Botanical, The Battle of Agincourt, Year of the Fat Knight, and more

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Here’s a round-up of Shakespeare-related books, fiction and nonfiction, that are on our must-read list. Ira’s Shakespeare Dream Glenda Armand (author), Floyd Cooper (illustrator) This story of famed African-American actor Ira Aldridge, who believed he could be a great Shakespearean…

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