The playwright's first printed collection of plays, published in 1623, sold at a Christie's auction in New York on Wednesday for $9.98...
51 months ago

Who was Shakespeare's fair youth? Matthew Harrison reviews Elaine Scarry's “Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare's Sonnets.”
97 months ago

In this OUPblog post, Lena Cowen Orlin, author of the "detailed and dazzling" 'The Private Life of William Shakespeare' asks: just when was...
29 months ago

When James Shapiro '77CC began plotting out Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?, a friend unnerved him by asking, “What difference does it make?
68 months ago

One of the most important books in literary history brings together 36 of the playwright's dramas.
60 months ago

In his own time, Shakespeare was much better known to the reading public as a poet than as a playwright. Venus and Adonis went through ten...
269 months ago

The world's oldest commemorative plaque scheme is celebrating the installation of its 1000th plaque.
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Edmond Malone was an Irish-born English scholar, editor, and pioneer in efforts to establish an authentic text and chronology of William...
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21 volumes. (8vo) 8½x5¼, later tan half calf and marbled boards, morocco lettering pieces, top edge gilt.
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EDMOND MALONE. "Three spirits mad with joy come dashing down on a tall wayside flower." Illustration for a poem by Tennyson. "A Fairy Revel, before the...
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