“Shakespeare In Love” is a completely made up story: a rollicking, laugh-filled fantasy.  But the depiction of the Elizabethan theater...

New plays had to be cranked out constantly, much the same as TV sit-coms and series today.  Playwrights like Shakespeare (who also acted)...

Boys were expected to perform young women’s roles and older men to enact older women. Why this single-gender casting? There are two main...