115 results for '"William Shakespeare"'

In his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively an African American art form and explicitly fused the idea of a black aesthetic with...

Poor boy. Spy. Transgressor. Genius. In repressive Elizabethan England, artists are frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners are suspect; popular entertainment largely consists of coarse...

MAP NEIGHBORHOOD COVERAGE:Capitol Hill, Adams-Morgan, Dupont Circle, The Mall, Georgetown, Downtown, Foggy Bottom, and The Wharf.ON THE MAP:- Museum Highlights & Historical Landmarks- Restaurants,...

A captivating, beautifully illustrated, one-of-a-kind color compendium of the flowers, fruits, herbs, trees, seeds, and grasses cited in the works of the world’s greatest playwright, William...

A foolproof, enormously fun method of teaching your children the classic works of William Shakespeare, by a Tony Award–winning playwright—now featuring two new chapters “You and your children will be...

A new selection of Henry James's essays on the art of writing, from his famous essay "The Art of Fiction" to pieces on George Eliot, Ivan Turgenev, Honoré de Balzac, and others. Witty, erudite, and...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about two women, centuries apart—one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare’s plays—who are both...

As an actor, William Shakespeare reinvented himself almost every day. At the height of his career, he often performed in six different plays on six consecutive days. He stopped reinventing himself...

A journey into the unique spaces where some of literature’s greatest writers created their most memorable worksVirginia Woolf famously wrote in A Room of One’s Own that “it is necessary to have five...

A groundbreaking study on the vital role of baroque theater in shaping modernist philosophy, literature, and performance.2021 Winner of the American Comparative Literature Association's Helen Tartar...

Reading Jorge Luis Borges is an experience akin to having the top of one's head removed for repairs. First comes the unfamiliar breeze tickling your cerebral cortex; then disorientation, even mild...

An in-depth and unified exploration of genius in the arts and sciences through the life and works of five seminal intellectual and cultural figures: Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare, Isaac...

How Two Grieving Mothers Found Inspiration and Comfort There are few, if any, events in life as traumatic, heart-wrenching, and crushing as the death of a child. While nothing can mute the pain of...

Our finest essayists discuss six centuries of literary genius."Genius is one of those words upon which the world has agreed to form no clear consensus," Joseph Epstein tells us in his introduction...