Katherine's Book Backyard

Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet Every once in a while I get a huge spike in views of this blog in Russia. While I'd love to think tha...

Margaret Atwood is one of the authors who is rewriting Shakespeare's plays for the "Hogarth Shakespeare'" collection. He...

This looks like a coming of age story set in Shakespeare's time The hero is a young orphan 9aren't they always?) who can write a sy...

Over at the Book Cover Designer , they're' going into their last week of a fabulous 20 percent off sale. (A new coupon will genera...

so it's #ShakespeareWeek and I was Googling around looking for Shakespeare silliness and I discovered that there's a Shakespeare br...

When I saw the ads for Sharknado 2 , I found myself wondering if Shakespeare ever used the word "shark." (After all, he knew about...

Tom Stoppard wrote the script for Shakespeare in Love and co-wrote the script for Brazi l, but before he was famous for his screenwritin...

Painting of Ophelia  by John Everett Millais the character of Ophelia in Hamlet has always annoyed me. Not because I think the characte...

Since I'm thinking about celebrity culture today, I started wondering about who the star of Shakespeare's day was. And then I real...

Twelfth Night A contributor named Herojax put together this list which has Othello at number 10 and Hamlet at number one. It's wor...

I once wrote a paper comparing the character of Hotspur (from Henry IV, part 1) to Hamlet and got an A because my professor though the comp...