Katherine's Book Backyard

The Shakespeare Standard has an interview with Invisible Hand author James Hartley today, and his new "Shakespeare Moon" serie...

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...

Shakespeare and politics...when the bard got political, people died. He would have appreciated our current election cycle, I think. And ...

Weirdos by Katherine Tomlinson   The cops eventually showed up at school. Cate knew they would. When a guy like Kingman Dunca...

Yes, #ShakespeareWeek continues with another fabulous YouTube find, the 1978 Royal Shakespeare Company's version of Macbeth starring ...

That lines comes form Act 5, Scene 5, Line 13-15 - Macbeth . I know it's upposed to be bad luck to quote "the Scottish play" ...

There's a moment at the end of Mystic River , a nonverbal moment between Laura Linney and Sean Penn, two of my favorite actors, that mad...

I was on the Library Thing site this afternoon, looking over the new list of books available for early review and spotted Shakespeare for Sl...

There are more than 60 different versions of Macbeth listed on IMDB, which is kind of amazing. This film, a modern-day adaptation set in ...

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...

Years ago, Ian McKelen brought his one-man show Acting Shakespeare to Los Angeles, where it played to SRO crowds. It was a thrilling nigh...