Arts and Entertainment - A place to discuss your favorite movies, plays, tv shows, literature, and more.
Literature - From fiction to petry, romance to science fiction, drama to biography and all others. Wether you enjoy reading, writing or just listening. This is the place to discuss your favorite authors, books and all things literary.
Shakespeare and Freudian Theory - An investigation of Freud's theory and family relationships in Shakespeare, especially in Hamlet and Titus Andronicus.
Shakespeare and His Critics - A collection of critical essays ranging from 18th and 19th Century criticism of the plays, and descriptions of their performance, to works by his contemporaries.
Shakespeare in Connotations - Complete list of contributions to the first seven volumes. Highlighted articles and responses available online.
Shakespeare in Europe: Critical Texts in English and German - William Shakespeare in European culture: critical essays, scholarly texts. A project of the English Department at Basel University. The study of cultures in contact. Uses of Shakespeare.
Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland - Tracey Hill reviews two books: Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland, by Christopher Highley; Spenser's Irish Experience: Wilde Fruite and Salvage Soyl, Andrew Hadfield.
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human - Robert Atwan reviews Harold Bloom's controversial book. Originally published in the February/March 1999 issue of Boston Review.
Was Shakespeare an Atheist? - We will never know. You can find hints that he may have been, or at least that he wasn't totally fond of religion and its orthodox practitioners, from his plays.
William Shakespeare the Upstart Crow - Provides details of the attack on the Bard by Robert Greene in his pamphlet the Groatsworth of Wit, which was published in 1592.
A She Or Not a She... That Is the Question for Shakespeare - "Fresh light has been thrown on William Shakespeare's sexual orientation by the discovery of a previously unknown portrait of the playwright's patron, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton - apparently dressed as a woman." Article from Guardian Unlimited Observer which includes the portrait in PDF format. (April 21, 2002)
