Shakespeare

Shylock controversy

The Merchant of Mar-a-Lago

Trump’s use of the word ‘Shylock’ allows his opponents to play the ‘he’s anti-Semitic’ card, when he clearly isn’t

Neal Pollack

Thomas Kyd wasn’t a patch on Shakespeare

Brian Vickers aims to ‘restore’ Kyd to greatness — but claiming too much on too little evidence does the playwright no favors

Emma Smith

Why Shakespeare remains the great playwright

Rhodri Lewis’s book offers so many fresh insights and well-turned phrases that I had to buy a new notebook to fit them all in

Philip Womack

Peter Ackroyd’s tour of English religious history

There isn’t much in The English Soul that you could not get from clicking in and out of the relevant Wikipedia entries on Wesley or the Diggers

A.N. Wilson

Place

Why do the Japanese suck at English?

Why would a people usually so meticulous about every aspect of life be so seemingly careless about the correct use of a foreign language?

Philip Patrick

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