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William Shakespeare
‘Every great man has a woman behind him rolling her eyes’
The author on Nero’s mother, Queen Elizabeth’s death and how to find errors in your own writing
The Juliet Club: ‘There was just something really lovely about the idea of reading people’s love stories’
The first ‘Juliet’s secretary’ is believed to have been Ettore Solimani, known as ‘the guardian of Juliet’s tomb’
In a Word...Caesar
You still have an awful lot of fans out there. They gave me an insight into how you probably felt that March day in the forum
Laura Slattery: Everybody involved in this rolling RTÉ omni-crisis has literally lost the plot
Minister for Media Catherine Martin’s ‘deep disappointment’ with Siún Ní Raghallaigh is much ado about absolutely nothing
Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley to star in Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet
Irish actors will play William Shakespeare and Shakespeare’s wife Anne Hathaway
It is so easy to disconnect, lose your bearings and yourself in these strange days and nights between Christmas and New Year
In a Word ... Sloth
TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch, beginning Sunday night
From Liz Bonnin’s Caribbean adventure to the true story of an Irish serial killer in London
Let Me Go On by Paul Griffiths: Ophelia has more to say
Dazzling follow-up to Let Me Tell You raises questions about the nature of self
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies by Elizabeth Winkler: A fascinating indictment of incurious scholars
The journalist was slated for daring question whether the plays attributed to Shakespeare could have been written by a woman
Maureen Dowd: Don’t ditch literature as Frankensteins are on the march
The humanities are faltering, but, amid the rise of artificial intelligence, we have never needed than more than we do now
Clare Dunne: ‘Let’s stop being obsessed with getting everything by the time you are f**king 30’
The star of Kin and Herself talks perseverance, the power of storytelling and the problem with dear old Dublin
Romeo and Juliet review: Fair Verona with Aperol spritz
Lyric Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s doomed romance emphasises the contemporary at expense of the universal
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