"The Importance of Being Earnest" runs through Aug. 2 at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival at Ewing Theatre. Read John D.

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" runs through Aug. 1 at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival at Ewing Theatre. Read Nancy Steele ...

But I, I've got a wonderful, great big, you know, all, all the collected plays and Shakespeare. Beautifully bound, it was given to me long ago for my 21st birthday, I think.

This isn’t just a case of fandom gone wild or Shakespeare professors, like Jonathan Bate, gone rogue. The global interest in the world-first academic Swiftposium is a good measure of how things ...

When scholar Sir Jonathan Bate wrote an article praising Swift’s work, the fact he was a Shakespeare professor was dwelt on in the article’s headline and subhead (he is, in fact, currently a ...

Jonathan Bate (former Provost of Worcester College Oxford), King Charles II, and Gregory Doran (Royal Shakespeare Company Artistic Director Emeritus) with King Charles I's First Folio.

This needn’t have been the case, historically speaking. For this line we have to thank Shakespeare’s actors John Heminges and Henry Condell and their success in collecting a fresh text of Hamlet for ...

Jonathan Bate, a Shakespeare expert from the University of Warwick, located near Stratford, notes, “If Shakespeare hadn’t been metamorphosed into a god, nobody would think it was worth having an ...

Renowned scholar Sir Jonathan Bate, a former Shakespeare professor at Warwick University, has praised Taylor Swift’s talent as a poet and compared her to some of history’s greatest writers ...

Writing a piece in The Sunday Times, the scholar Sir Jonathan Bate, a former Shakespeare professor at Warwick University, said that the megastar is more than “just high-class showbiz” and has ...

Scholar Sir Jonathan Bate, a former Shakespeare professor at Warwick University, said he believed the popstar is more than “just high-class showbiz” and has a “literary sensibility” that ...