To be immortalized by Shakespeare is often also to be caricatured by him; a sumptuous new biography of King Henry IV admirably brings its royal subject out of the Bard's shadow.
Read MoreBook Review: Juliet's Nurse
/The Nurse in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" takes center stage in a new historical novel by Lois Leveen
Read MoreEntitled to Extravagance: Some Historical Fictions of Anthony Burgess
/Some of Anthony Burgess' most accomplished inventions roam into the past, to Shakespeare and Marlowe's England and Jesus' Judea. How well has his historical fiction stood up across the years?
Read MoreBook Review: Shakespeare's Common Prayers
/The words of Shakespeare have become a common literary language - but whose words did HE know? Why, the words of Thomas Cranmer, of course.
Read More'I am Thy Man'
/He fought a world war with France, survived the Black Death, and gave England a real Parliament. Froissart and Chaucer loved him, Shakespeare (almost) wrote about him, and the Victorians disparaged him. He was Edward III, and he has a king-sized new biography from Yale University Press.
Read MoreBook Review: Iago
/One of Shakespeare's greatest villains gets a novel of his own - is there creative life after the Bard?
Read MoreNow in Paperback: the RSC/Modern Library Shakespeare
/A new series of eye-opening Shakespeare paperbacks, suitable for bus, train, and trolley.
Read MoreBook Review: Revenger
/The latest in the ongoing adventures of Shakespeare - JOHN Shakespeare, master-spy to Queen Elizabeth I.
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