According to one legend, Pope Gelasius wanted to put an end to the debauchery in the late fifth century. He declared Feb. 14 ...

Where did Valentine’s Day originate? For years, the consensus among historians was that the holiday had something to do with ...

Lovers have always batted their eyes on Valentine’s Day as cherubs circled overhead. Or have they? Historians aren’t sure ...

According to Kelly, author of “Chaucer and the Cult of Saint Valentine,” the English writer was the first to make the ...

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

It’s definitely on my bucket list to one day visit the famous playwright’s home town of Stratford-upon-Avon. And now I know ...

Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

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It’s a scene from Shakespeare. Power has gone to the queen’s head ... Even as their eyes dart like minnows, their mouths fall wide open. They love her, they fear her, they hate her. The prime minister ...

They generally don’t get on well. Another, the product of revisionist scholarship, is a crypto-Catholic, socially conservative Shakespeare. This is the bard whom Clare Asquith makes her subject in ...

There are two ways of reading Romeo and Juliet, one of which is correct, in the sense that it is the way that Shakespeare ... of the famous balcony scene. He also describes love as “madness ...