Summer in the Northwest is a time for Shakespeare. (Remember to check The Oregonian's June 15 A&E for a preview roundup of coming shows and a wealth of events for Portland-area Bard watchers.) It's ...

It was modern forensics, a class of science the bard would likely have relished. South African anthropologist Francis Thackeray actually dug up Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon garden and had a good ...

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From the whereabouts of his skull to questions of authorship, the legendary playwright William Shakespeare attracts controversy as well as acclaim. Now, researchers have used a machine learning ...

If I can be said to have a favorite kind of column, it’s one in which I can bring to your attention an exciting literary development—one whose importance has not received the notice it deserves ...

Three paradoxes about William Shakespeare’s writing will be the focus of an address at Hope College by internationally respected Shakespeare scholar Dr. John Cox, who is a retired member of the ...

A respected Talmudic scholar once called the Kabbalah, the hallowed tradition of Jewish mystical belief and practice, "nonsense," and not worthy of being studied. But the history of nonsense, he said- ...

Many believe that Shakespeare had help writing at least some of his plays, but to what extent? AI might have an answer. Czech researcher Petr Plecháč has developed a machine learning system that ...

There is no end to theories about the true identity of William Shakespeare-that he is Christopher Marlowe, that he paid a drunkard named Shakespeare to use his name, that he is a conglomerate of ...

Some say he's a writer of short stories, comics, and film. Others that he is in fact an international man of mystery. Though both are probably true, I spoke with him only about his career as a writer ...