Is there anything new to say about Shakespeare?
Matthew Reisz talks to academics who have devoted their lives to studying the Bard

Matthew Reisz talks to academics who have devoted their lives to studying the Bard

Generalists on fair terms would offer the flexibility the sector needs, argues Philip Roddis

Infinite in faculties - The study of Shakespeare: not weary, stale, flat or unprofitable

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An American political scientist and social critic whose writings were acclaimed by Christopher Hitchens as 鈥渟cholarly but jargon-free, anchored in modern references but with a聽strong sense of history...

University College LondonDilly FungOn being offered the position of director of University College London鈥檚 Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching, Dilly Fung immediately thought of her...

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