Writers can do crazy things in quest of a blurb. When Norman Mailer finished his third novel, The Deer Park, he sent a copy ...

If my title leads you to hope this column is about amusing things in English, such as funny words like “hornswoggle” and ...

Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

For years, only the Shakespeares and Dickenses of the world have been the mainstays in our English classrooms, with no room for the Rokeyas — voices that resonate with our culture and identity. It’s t ...

A Shakespeare scholar at Harvard University explains how the creative collaboration that happens in theater can be a model ...

Celebrate your wedding with some of the most romantic quotes in literature with a little help from the Bard, in SoGlos's top picks of Shakespeare's most romantic readings. Get some wedding inspiration ...

Hyde, meanwhile, spent his youth in imitation of Shakespeare’s Prince Hal, among bombastic literary types that included William Davenant and Ben Jonson. In time, the pair found their way into ...

Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams appeared on the St. Brown Brothers Podcast on Wednesday and finally broke his silence about the hilarious Ben Johnson prank, when a few young fans texted ...

Williams was victim to a cruel prank last weekend when some tricksters got his number and pretended to be Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson, who at the time was set to interview for the ...

He’s the most performed playwright in history. But which of William Shakespeare’s plays do twenty-first century Brits actually like the most? Back in 2016, we marked the celebrations around ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — In the fog of his 150mph serves, his seemingly limitless athleticism and his frightening forehand, it is sometimes hard to figure out why Ben Shelton doesn’t win just ...

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