Ms. Packer, the founding artistic director of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., examines Shakespeare's heroines in this book, which grew out of her play.
Vladimir Nabokov's first major work, the play "The Tragedy of Mister Morn," pits a mysterious king, who has brought peace to a fairy-tale land, against a group of revolutionaries.
The Great Tail Fin Wars of the late 1950s, between Chrysler and Cadillac; the Prius-Hummer face-offs of the early 2000s; these are just some of the stories in Paul Ingrassia's 'Engines of Ch…
Arthur Phillips's "Tragedy of Arthur," about the discovery of what is reputed to be a lost Shakespeare play, turns the author into a central player in his own novel, a puzzle box that is as …