Alas, poor Shakespeare! 402 years ago, on April 23, 1616, the famous English playwright died at the age of 52. But we also celebrate the birth of William Shakespeare on April 23, 1564. Did Shakespeare ...

As a decades-old turf war raged in the northern California city of Richmond, a group of teenagers and young adults met to consider "Romeo and Juliet." It wasn't the story's romance that resonated with ...

“You’ve been cheated of your birthright: a complete education.” So Scott Newstok warned the Class of 2020 in a convocation speech four years ago. Newstok, who teaches literature at Rhodes College, ...

Just a few stanzas after Hamlet famously soliloquized "To be or not to be," his maker, William Shakespeare, contemplated the fact that once a person dies, no living person knows where that departed ...

WHEN Oscar Pistorius was convicted of murder last month, the presiding judge described the case as a “human tragedy of Shakespearean proportions”. The Paralympic athlete’s fall from grace had followed ...