William Shakespeare: A man out of time
How Shakespeare’s plays—400 years later—have remained the best explorations of our own political and cultural fights
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William Shakespeare
My Shakespeare: Actress Sarah Afful
To mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death on Apr 23, Canadians like Sarah Afful are reciting their favourite lines of Shakespeare
Retelling Shakespeare for modern times
Jeanette Winterson is one of a star cast ready to celebrate Shakespeare through cover stories
New Brunswick as the backdrop to Romeo and Juliet
A local theatre company will stage the play with Romeo’s faction speaking English and Juliet’s French
The Shakespearean Jack Layton
Like that of Henry V, Prince Jack’s passing leaves a big hole
Hamlet: The new action hero
The famous bard and his characters duke it out in Kill Shakespeare
A first-rate (mis)adventure writer
Plus, a novel about Shakespeare’s illegitimate daughter, a case for the oil sands, a shocking confession, war biographies, and a head-spinning tour of central Europe
Sarah palinates bardigiously
Sarah Palin isn’t Shakespeare; she’s Dogberry. Not that she knows who Dogberry is.
What’s behind the Shakespeare wars
An eye-opening new history explains why the authorship dispute has lasted for 150 years
In the Shakespeare wars, James Shapiro fights for the Bard
A Q&A with the orthodox Stratfordian about Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud and other non-believers