Katherine's Book Backyard

The Folger Library wants you to celebrat with them--virtually of course. The party is here .

I am a fan of Bernard Cornwell's historical fiction and this new book, Fools and Mortals looks like it belongs on my TBR shelf. Her...

"Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss."  The line comes from one of Shakespeare's lesser plays, Pericles . (Most sc...

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...

19th century lawn tennis Tennis balls, that is. One of the best scenes in Shakespeare's Henry V is the one where he receives a gi...

Temperatures hit 24 Celsius in London this weekend, which is a rather balmy 75 Fahrenheit.  That's much cooler than almost anywhere in...

My first encounter with Shakespeare's play Julius Caesa r was watching the star-studded 1953 film in my 9th grade English class. James...

January 18, 1988 was a bitterly cold Iowa day.   VICKI MYRON is not a morning person anyway and cold mornings are especially trying for he...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (aka the Notorious RBG)  is my spirit animal. She's impressive enough now, but check out what she did before she j...

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

Destination Shakespeare is a book of 24 poems published by Vancouver-based Misfit Press. You can see an animation of one of the poems her...

Shakespeare's plays are durable. They can withstand any number of modern adaptations, permutations, and mutations. The whole Underworld ...

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...

I've said before that the Taming of the Shrew is not my favorite Shakespeare play. And I was not much of a huge fan of the Heath Ledger...

A surprising number of Shakespeare's plays are about politics. The history plays, of course, and Julius Caesar , the first play every ...

Bigstock “O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.” --William Shakespeare, A Comedy o...

For a May 2016 staging of The Tempest in Central Park, according to production notes: The production uses semi- and full-nudity to celebra...

The last time I browsed Cafe Press it was all about the clothing--t-shirts and hats and tote bags and such. Also mugs. I didn't realiz...

Over at the Conversation, a website that celebrates "Academic rigor and journalistic flair," there's an essay on how Shakespe...