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‘He contains the whole of literature’: is Dickens better than Shakespeare?

After rereading the entire works of the great Victorian novelist during the pandemic, Peter Conrad became convinced – whisper it – that Dickens is an even greater writer than that other British literary giant, the Bard

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Now gen AI has stopped telling us to glue cheese to pizza, it’s bland as a margherita

Despite fewer silly glitches, you now get an executive summary of the world, with all interesting complications removed

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Poem of the week: I know that all beneath the moon decays by William Drummond of Hawthornden

A sonnet about disappointed love is enlivened by a large imagination and technical fluency of great vitality

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Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus may have been co-written by forgotten dramatist

Exclusive: Scholar names Henry Porter as likely co-author of 1604 play after linguistic clues in his surviving work

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Oxford student productions of Shakespeare have a very long history of engaging professionals

Letter: And Ben Jonson was invited for a stint at Christ Church, Oxford, in the late 1610s, writes Daniel Blank

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Shakespeare played jealous husband in 1598 Ben Jonson drama, scholar’s analysis finds

Exclusive: lecturer finds ‘striking similarities’ between lines in Jonson’s Every Man in His Humour and later Shakespeare works

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Shakespeare’s First Folio: State Library of NSW takes the Bard’s ‘radical’ 400-year-old book out of the vault

Half of Shakespeare’s plays would have been lost without it – and it is now among the most valuable books in the world

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Exhibits and collectors editions mark 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio

On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, rare originals are being displayed and publishers are offering collectors editions, including one that sells for $1,500

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Around 1600, speeches in English plays suddenly got shorter – and no one knows why

A speech in a play by Shakespeare or one of his contemporaries can be as short as a word or as long as several hundred, or anything in between. But what is the most common length?

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‘My eyes filled with tears, my voice shook’: Simon Callow on coming face to face with Shakespeare’s First Folio

As the Swan of Avon celebrates his birthday on Sunday, the actor pays tribute to a ‘miraculous’ book that rescued plays such as The Tempest and Macbeth from oblivion

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Did William Shakespeare invent the word ‘playwright’?

Letters: Charles Nicholl on the tantalising possibility that the dramatist wrote a poem that features the earliest known use of the word

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Ben Jonson work from 1603 may contain ‘lost’ Shakespeare sonnet, say experts

Exclusive: To the Deserving Author, found in the playbook of Jonson’s Sejanus: His Fall, is signed by ‘Cygnus’

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Imagine a time when Shakespeare played a very second fiddle to Ben Jonson

Richard Cohen’s Making History returned me to the childhood ecstasy of leafing through my first encyclopaedia

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'Reade him, therefore; and againe, and againe'. It's the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio, a monumental project put together by his friends

Shakespeare’s First Folio – more accurately known as Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, Tragedies – was published 400 years ago this November.

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Shakespeare inspired to write Othello after being booed off stage

The bard learned from his humiliating experiences as an actor at the Globe to hone his playwright skills, academic says

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Poem of the week: An Ode to Himself by Ben Jonson

Jonson’s poetic response to bad reviews of his plays by ‘wolf’ and ‘ass’ praises poetry and urges a return to deeper sources of inspiration

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