Almost 4,000 years ago, an unknown scholar in ancient Mesopotamia wrote the first known book on a series of clay tablets. The ...

The fact that Shakespeare is the most influential writer in English literature is simply held to be the truth now.

Julius lives in the cabin built by his long-dead grandfather. In summer he works as a mechanic and part-time gardener for out-of-towners. In winter he retreats to the cabin, surrounded by his late ...

Several Stratford theatre, music and arts festivals are receiving funding through the province's $50-million Reconnect Festivals and Events Program. Festivals in Southwestern Ontario hard-hit by ...

As an exercise in Cowlingite history, Burying Caesar leaves something to be desired. For most of the twenty years in question, Chamberlain and Churchill moved in such different orbits that they ...

William Shakespeare is undeniably one ... are some of the most quoted poems in the world. The very name Shakespeare has ...

Such sombre, near-ruinous perspectives of a once thriving emporium form the backdrop to the opening chapters of John Julius Norwich’s Paradise of Cities, in which Venice is observed through the prism ...

The world does not need another general biography of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor from 31 BC till his death in AD 14, unless it has something special to offer. Anthony Everitt’s selling point is ...