A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of confused lovers and fairy magic. Themes are the main ideas that appear repeatedly in a play. Some of the ...

Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

Perhaps less well known than some of Shakespeare's other tragedies, this play is threaded with the theme of destructive jealousy and racism - an incredibly modern theme for a play written in the ...

Shakespeare used allegory and elegy to describe complex themes, but most importantly, he allowed the reader to interpret his words in a way they saw fit. The writing in this poem is taut ...

Even though he was writing about love, loss, power, jealousy, fate and free will over 430 years ago, the themes ... part of the play.” Another panelist, Kevin Rich, is also a professor at CU Boulder ...

On day four of the Jaipur Literature Festival, a packed house was seen at an interesting session that talked about ...

Australian Shakespeare Company’s Macbeth adeptly illustrates why the play is still relevant over 400 years after its writing.