From Expositions, a review of Colin McGinn's Shakespeare’s Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays and A.D. Nuttall's Shakespeare the Thinker. A review of The Tainted Muse: Prejudice and Presumption in Shakespeare and His Time by Robert Brustein. The Merchant of Prejudice: An article on Shakespeare as a teachable moment. From THES, an essay on Shakespeare and porn: a topic for theoretical, not practical, analysis. A review of Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age by Carole Levin and John Watkins. From TLS, were the Admiral's Men more original and theatrically brilliant than Shakespeare's company? A painting that hung for centuries in an Irish manor house may be the most authentic portrait of Shakespeare to date — but is it really him? A review of The Quest for Shakespeare: The Bard of Avon and the Church of Rome by Joseph Pearce. The Bard of Rome: Kathleen Doherty Fenty on Shakespeare and the Catholic question. Skeptic's take on the life and argued works of Shakespeare: The anti-Stratfordian skeptics are back, and this time they have a Supreme Court justice on their side. Researchers claim a computer program proves Shakespeare didn't work alone. Though This Be Madness, There Is Method In’t: After sixteen years of work, Surjit Hans’ mission of translating all of Shakespeare into Punjabi is nigh an end. Illustrator Gareth Hinds transforms Shakespeare classics into graphic novels.
