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Early on, the women in Shakespeare’s works tended to be simple caricatures – shrews to be tamed or sweet little things with no discernible independent...

Mondays in June, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summ...

Author, photographer, and local historian Bruce Mathews discusses Charles A. Smith’s work in the first installment of the Library’...

Claressa “T-Rex” Shields rose from impoverished Flint, Michigan, to a place in Olympic history, becoming the first American woman to win a gold medal...

From ancient times to today, people have loved nothing more than to listen to a well-told story, a tall tale, a good yarn. Indeed, the spirit of th...

When librarians in a township in northern France began wondering late in 2014 whether their centuries-old book of Shakespeare’s works might be a ra...

Mondays in June, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summ...

His comedies, histories, and tragedies have been performed worldwide for more than 400 years, but William Shakespeare’s personal life remains somethin...

When her daughter was born nearly four months premature, Deanna Fei confronted a shattering question: Had she delivered a child or...

In conjunction with Planet Comicon, Kansas City’s largest pop culture and comic book convention, scheduled for May 20-22 at Bartle Hall, the Library s...