William Shakespeare
Chapter and verse on the unknowable Bard
The striking thing about Sir Stanley’s Shakespeare is how unsexy he is
Fat chance
Plus-sized actors and theatres rattling the begging bowl
The Bard of Balliol
Never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account
O blind new world
Behind modernity’s moralistic exhortations lies a cold-blooded mania for total control
The undiscovered country
Ian McKellen’s Hamlet meets impossibly high expectations
This way, madness lies
Using the name Shakespeare in your book title shouldn’t do anything for sales
Shakespearean lore and order
A new anthology displays Shakespeare’s engagement with the sonnet form across his career, but at a high cost
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
Don’t tell feminists what our priorities should be
We know the seriousness of the issues that affect us, thank you
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
Finding the middle ground
Where do the acts too big for pubs but too small for arenas play?
The female body is the new short skirt
What is being done to some female bodies is changing what all female bodies mean
Sunak stumbles
The Prime Minister spent half of the afternoon trying to extract his foot from his mouth
