A centuries-old manuscript once thought to be the work of William Shakespeare’s father has been reattributed to his sister,Joan Shakespeare Hart, in a new peer-reviewed study published in Shakespeare ...

Sir Francis Bacon was a true polymath and ahead of his time. Did he hide something on Oak Island? William Shakespeare is perhaps the greatest ever writer in the English language and his plays have ...

Dr. Leah Veronese from Oxford University's English Faculty has unearthed a rare manuscript copy of Shakespeare's famous Sonnet 116 tucked away in a 17th-century poetry collection. This treasure was ...

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 remains one of the best-known poems on love in the English language, its steely reverence for marital commitment long making it a wedding favorite. It is not a sweet ...

In 1540, Andreas Vesalius began dissecting bodies. This broke from medical orthodoxy that dictated physicians follow the teachings of Aristotle, Galen, and co. However, as Vesalius discovered and ...

A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS. VOL. VIII.— SEPTEMBER, 1861.—NO. XLVII. IN 1853 there went up a jubilant cry from many voices upon the publication of Mr. Collier’s “Notes and Emendations ...

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Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Who those private friends were and what they possessed has excited speculation ever since. If not an outright ...

In the late 1500s, George North, a minor nobleman of Queen Elizabeth I’s court, penned a manuscript condemning rebellions against the monarchy. A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels was never ...

Portland man Kevin O'Leary, (left) playing the Fool, rehearses a scene with Charles Michael Howard, who plays the title role in Shakespeare's "King Lear," in Portland in this 2016 BDN file photo. New ...