Shakespeare & Beyond

Brittany N. Williams looks at cue scripts and their importance to actors in Shakespeare’s time.

Austin Tichenor explores the deep connections the president and his murderer share with William Shakespeare.

Listen to a ballad that was written around 1594 as a spin-off of Titus Andronicus, the revenge tragedy that’s considered one of Shakespeare’s bloodiest and most violent plays.

Find out what’s happening at Shakespeare theaters across the US this month, including Caesar, Merchant, Macbeth, and more.

Austin Tichenor argues for the importance of casting disabled actors as Richard III, spotlighting Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s production with Katy Sullivan in the title role.

“Things don’t just happen. Everything around us was actually created intentionally at some point in time, right? So in order to break down systemic oppression, you really have to look at how things were constructed.”

Joyce Green MacDonald is the author of this excerpt from The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race, a collection of essays edited by Patricia Akhimie.

See what’s onstage at Shakespeare theaters across the United States this month.

Patricia Akhimie examines the crucial role of women’s travels on horseback in the making of early modern marriage.

Austin Tichenor grapples with the larger question of whether Iago deserves the sympathetic re-evaluation found in Iago: The Green Eyed Monster.

The language of botanicals can be found in some of the smallest treasures to survive the 17th century, such as embroidered boxes.

“When it came to Elizabethan furniture, you could never be completely certain that it wasn’t bewitched,” writes Richard Schoch.