In this love letter to the Bard’s “swag-bellied omnivorous cornucopia of appetites,” Harold Bloom argues for Falstaff as one of literature’s vital forces.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMEvery romance is also a bromance, you go to bed never knowing who you’ll wake up with, and the strongest marriage is the Macbeths’ … Shakespeare’s tangled take on love. Illustration:…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33PMTo reimagine The Winter’s Tale as a modern-day novel with hedge funds and video games is to stay true to the spirit of the playwright – he knew how to riff on an ideaOn the day of the fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMLowry's critics have used the fact of his paintings' repetitiveness against him, but he brilliantly reveals what happens when human beings couple with the industrial world, says Jeanette Win…
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