shakespeare

“O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.” - Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) was a brilliant Elizabethan playwright who rivaled Shakespeare during his short life. In fact, Marlowe was England's preeminent...

Could Shakespeare have written novels? Perhaps after the Globe goes poof? I know. This presupposes that he had enough exposure to the concept and that he was willing to. Since it's safe to say that OTL Shakespeare didn't have had much (if any) exposure to the modern concept of a novel, as the...

So I was saw Something Rotten today. I think anyone familiar with the show knows where this is going now. If you aren't familiar with it, it is, keeping spoilers to the minimum, the story of how a down-on-his luck poet creates a musical to combat Shakespeare's fame and fortune and maybe secure...

SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF DENMARK (source) "To be, or not to be...so that's the question?" === Angels and ministers of grace preserve us! What ho! This is madness; be there method in it? Quite so. In my bid to give everything real-life precedent like I did with King Arthur and...