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This is the best spin-off show of Julius Caesar that anyone could have imagined. It's ripe with soap opera drama. It begins years after...

In his introduction to Coriolanus, the Riverside scholar Frank Kermode posits that "this inhospitable play is one of the supreme tests of...

This fucking play. It has injected itself into my life more than I could have ever intended, and I've come to realize how essential it is...

I was intimidated going into this one. I won't lie. Every essay I've ever read puts it on this pedestal, vying with Hamlet for MOST...

I am perpetually intrigued by the common threads that Shakespeare weaves throughout his plays. They tend to be thematic or...

If this ain't a Rorschach test of a play... my God. For some, it is merely another "problem play" that doesn't know what genre it is. For...

This one perplexes me. It's utterly unremarkable other than it involves a batshit plot that summarizes like a particularly juicy episode...

Everyone in this play is a WHORE. Which is why this is the perfect piss-take on wartime politics for any occasion. It's a big messy...

Twelfth Night is the most queer-centric Shakespearean play, and it is most appropriately titled. Traditionally, the last night of the...

In the process of outlining this one, it became all too apparent that I have so much more to say than I originally anticipated, so I've...

Our dear Prince of Denmark holds the most unique distinction of running away from his own creator. He is the only character in...

Going into As You Like It, I hadn't recalled much: a lady in drag, a bunch of rich people cavorting through a forest, "All the world's a...

For being a relatively short play, Julius Caesar sure does pack in the drama. Our playwright's first foray into ancient Roman subject...

What's curious about Much Ado About Nothing is that it's considered one of the "high comedies" but it's not especially stuffed with...

Just take a moment to admire how astute a student of Shakespeare Sir Laurence Olivier is with the above photos. So accurate in his...

We all know the old story about how Queen Elizabeth saw the Henry IV plays and loved Falstaff so much that she ordered Shakespeare to...

And we're back! The next Henry IV picks up pretty much exactly where the last one left off, with everyone dealing with the repercussions...

We're now entering the middle period of our Billy's career, and these next history plays really ramp things up, if you ask nearly...

After this week's lengthy scholar readings, I feel I have very little to add to the already deep conversation surrounding The Merchant of...

Full disclosure: I was not enthused about going into Midsummer before this week began. I fell into the trap of believing it was, as Queen...