Via Renaissance Lit comes the news of The Shakespeare Post, a new site on Shakespeare. It promises to bring you the latest news on all matters Shakespearean, gathered from the net and based on the editor’s own journalism. In the latter category, the site features a podcast of an interview with archeologist Jo Lyon about [...]

I read on The Freudian Petticoat this morning that the Arden Shakespeare has one-sidedly decided to end their contract with Patricia Parker for her edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Arden 3 series. The Chronicle ran an article on the matter. There is also a website in support of Patricia Parker on which she tells her side [...]

This week, archeologists of the Museum of London, have possibly and quite serendipitously found the foundations of The Theatre on a building site for a new theatre. The Theatre was one of the first purpose-built theatre in London, located in Shoreditch. Shakespeare’s Lord Chamberlain’s men performed at this theatre until a dispute with the landlord forced them to dismantle [...]

Most of you will know Ann Hathaway, whether it be from a biography of Shakespeare, from education, popular literature or the internet. The image most people have of her is based on a few facts. When they married, for example, William was eighteen while Ann was twenty-six and several months pregnant. In his will, [...]

Over at The Valve, Adam Roberts posted an unorthodox theory on who wrote the Ur-Hamlet.
Scholars suppose that there was a version of Hamlet before Shakespeare wrote his play in 1600 or 1601, and they refer to this version as the Ur-Hamlet. No text of the play survives, but an earlier version of the [...]