Romance may be ruling bestseller lists, but its leading ladies are still fighting for respect. As the genre’s heroines break hearts and defy odds, the books themselves remain boxed in — dismissed as ...

Reading Shakespeare can feel like decoding a secret language. The words are strange, the sentences are twisted, and sometimes ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Bahr undertook a complete re-examination of the tome, complete with spectroscopic analysis and mathematical investigation, to ...

You don't get this much swagger by holding back your insults. Image via Wikipedia. William Shakespeare gave the English ...

The 19th-century English poet was a "prolific reviser" who tested out many variations of his work before publication. A new ...

"We're working across the curriculum - so we work with art, music, poetry, we've got events with Michael Rosen," said Sally Gray, project manager at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. "We've got ...

Scientific experiments run today are based on research practices that evolved out of a British tea-tasting experiment in the ...

Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed to page through the Pearl-Manuscript, a singular bound volume from the 1300s containing the earliest versions of the masterly medieval poem "Pearl ...

These collections by Juliana Spahr, Mai Der Vang, Hasib Hourani and Martín Espada invite us to rethink the relentless accumulation of history.

“I think of it as everything Shakespeare could ever have wanted to do,” he says. “It’s comic, tragic, historical, political, it’s about the inner journey, and it has some remarkable ...

Back in 1934, Ralph Nelson Elliott discovered that price action displayed on charts, instead of behaving in a somewhat chaotic manner, had actually an intrinsic narrative attached. Elliot saw the ...