Celebrating Shakespeare

Celebrating Shakespeare: A Review of ‘Hamlet’ by William Shakespeare

3 years ago Sharon Browning

Hamlet, as a work of literature, is a stunning enigma. One of the most readable of William Shakespeare's plays, it...

Shakespeare and the Original Pronunciation

3 years ago LitStackEditor

Check out this very cool clip on the original pronunciations of Shakespeare's sonnets and plays. From Open University: An introduction...

Celebrating Shakespeare: Who Wrote Shakespeare’s Plays, Anyway?

3 years ago Sharon Browning

It's April and for those of us at LitStack who happen to love Shakespeare, that means a month of honoring...

Birthdays

On this day, July 30, in 1818, Emily Brontë was born in the village of Thornton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The middle child of the three literary Brontë sisters, Emily was extremely shy and had very few friends or acquaintances beyond her family, often leaving the household only to go to church or to take walks in the surrounding countryside. Her only novel was Wuthering Heights, a surprisingly passionate book to have been written by such a shy and retiring soul. She never was able to realize the success of her book, for she died of tuberculosis a year after its publication, at age 30.