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 ...

Gary B. Goldstein, editor of the peer-reviewed journal The Oxfordian, is the author of Reflections on the True Shakespeare (2016). Does the first collection of William Shakespeare’s plays provid ...

...Behind the Name. Get to grips with Shakespeare's true identity as this documentary explores Edward de Vere, charting his life and travels through Italy during the ...

Shakespeare’s political plays were the ones ... For these reasons, access to an insider at the royal court was what represented true political success. As Justice Shallow tells an associate ...

It’s a history play, but the plot isn’t necessarily true to events: Shakespeare wrote the play during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The hero of the play, who ends Richard’s reign of ...