In an essay about Maurice Sendak’s bittersweet posthumous farewell to the world, NYT’s Stephen Greenblatt considers the similarities between Sendak and Shakespeare.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald reads Shakespeare. Also see: Fitzgerald responds to hate mail.
Poetry is an extreme form of wordplay, in which numbers dictate form and structure to give more beauty to it.
Shatner on Shakespeare
Shakespeare may have died 396 years ago today, but he springs back to life with Milton Glaser’s stunning 36 faces of William Shakespeare.
396 years ago today, the world lost Shakespeare – these are some of the surprising things he left behind. Also see this list of modern phrases we owe to Shakespeare.


