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This beautiful artist's book includes renowned illustrator Ronald King's own marginal notes and luminous contemporary illustrations. Though King was no stranger to illustrating masterpieces – including Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales – this work is…

In this novel, Sterling borrows from the annals of history to recreate her own version of Anne Hathaway’s romance with Shakespeare which is meant to be written from Hathaway’s point of view. Unsuccessful in her efforts to put him off (as Anne…

These nineteenth-century wood engravings with captions demonstrate a type of storytelling akin to today’s graphic-novels. Every play has six vignettes with a line from the play followed by scene number.

If you thought the movie Anonymous was a fresh and original take on the man we know as Shakespeare, you’ll be interested to know that it was a road – though less travelled – paved long before. Mark Twain, one of our country’s most celebrated authors…

As a child, Shakespeare attended King's New School in Stratford where he was instructed in Latin literature and history. The classic poets he studied in his youth greatly influenced his work. He was particularly fond of Virgil and Ovid; the latter is…

An item from the Fanny Kemble Playbill Collection documenting Kemble's early years on the English stage.

Fanny Kemble was born into a theatrical family; her mother was a famed actress and her father was the manager of the Covent Garden Theatre in London. Kemble established a reputation as one of the greatest actresses of her time in England and in…

Verso playbill describing a Miami Civic Theatre production held at the University of Miami.

Program of the Opera Guild of Greater Miami, Season 1965 production of Verdi's Otello.

This performance of William Shakespeare's King Lear was given at the University of Miami's Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, Coral Gables, Florida.