Virtual Grub Street

In the olden days, I could be depended upon to launch into a set-speech when someone complained about the harshness of their lives. Even the...

Having read yet again that Shakespeare and Ben Jonson famously traded witticisms at the Mermaid Tavern, on Bread Street, I am no longer able...

[New post] Few people have watched a 16 th century play by anyone other than William Shakespeare and maybe Christopher Marlowe. Late 15 th...

If one takes the Revels account entry for “Newyeres daie at night” 1576 [O.S.], “a play The historie of Error,” as the first performance of ...

The First Folio has long been the center-piece of traditional assignment of the works of Shakespeare to William Shakspere of Stratford upon ...