Shakespeare

It feels wrong to compare a historical medieval epic to The Lord of the Rings trilogy. One is mired in the murky details of the past. The other is beholden to the basic swords and sorcery concept its adaptations would eventually refine it…

Dear Ben Elton and David Mitchell, I have a bone to pick with you. (No, it’s not one of Shakespeare’s phrases. I know. It feels like it should be.) (What am I saying? You know this already! Half the gags in season 3 of Upstart Crow…

Delia Bacon was born in a log cabin in Ohio in the February of 1811. Her father David was a Congregationalist minister who had been born in Connecticut forty years earlier. In 1801 he had tried to establish a mission in Detroit, but it had…

April 23rd 2016 is the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. Although his plays and poems have lived on and are enjoyed across the globe, relatively little is known for certain about the man himself. This is particularly so for…

Christopher Marlowe, known to most as Kit, was born in Canterbury in early 1564. His father was a shoemaker, but young Kit’s intelligence was evident enough at an early age that his father sought a scholarship for him at the King’s School…

None of the plays attributed to Shakespeare were written by Shakespeare. We know this. It’s fact. The earth revolves around the sun, 2+2=4, Shakespeare was a disgusting fraud.  These are the foundations upon which civilisation is built.…

None of the plays attributed to Shakespeare were written by Shakespeare. We know this. It’s fact. The earth revolves around the sun, 2+2=4, Shakespeare was a disgusting fraud. These are the foundations upon which our civilisation is built.…

None of the plays attributed to Shakespeare were written by Shakespeare. We know this. It's fact. The earth revolves around the sun, 2+2=4, Shakespeare was a disgusting fraud.  These are the foundations upon which civilisation is built.…

Library Love Letters A love note to a library? How often do we take the time to sit down and spill our hearts and feelings onto a page? If you are reading this and thinking ‘never’ then shame on you. Book Week Scotland has chosen a…