A 400-year-old poem offers yet more evidence to suggest that William Shakespeare may have found at least some of his inspiration in cannabis.
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Why Scotland should raise a glass to a certain Brummie Bill.
For whatever reason, objections don’t seem to crop up when directors tinker with the setting, costumes and conceptualizations of Shakespeare’s plays.
South African forensics may provide clues to the 400-year-old mystery of what was smoked in pipes found in Shakespeare’s garden.
Is there a place for Shakespeare in African schools, or is his time long past?
Obsessing about the bard’s dashing good looks won’t help us understand his works.
Centuries before the internet, Shakespeare became a global phenomenon.
This annual day of mass salivation is more than a little depressing.
As long as the history of English literature is taught in universities, the charm of the immortal poem “A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns will endure in China. I first came across the poem by the national…
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