William Shakespeare ... Juliet, Hamlet, or the affeared Scottish play came across your desk, you wanted to bolt from the room as if someone had just your chair on fire. And since no one took ...

Oxford believed that his wife had been unfaithful to him while he was away on a European tour and (for a time, at least) seems to have doubted that he was the father of her first child. Hamlet says to ...

In a classic Shakespeare play—or any number of prestige ... It could be indecision, as in the case of Hamlet. Or immense and unfiltered ambition, like MacBeth. Or over-the-top egocentrism ...

Football fans will be well aware of the new branch of the national morality protection brigade, the “Celebration Police”.

For decades, he’s captivated audiences as a certain kind of character: charming. Handsome. Beautiful, even. So much so that people saw him that way, too. Now 51, and with a run of prestige ...

And it was never out of a fear of anyone in the family not ... there are certain stories that are good no matter how many ...

Do you hear the abortion war cry, the offbeat drums luring women to the polls this year? And that’s the major focus for some ...

Shakespeare ... worthy moment that no future production should ever attempt to re-create; their too-brief moment of post-wedded bliss. As Gertrude wisely commented in Hamlet: “More matter ...