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The question of whether William Shakespeare truly wrote every word in every scene of his plays has been circulating since the time of The Bard himself. Wilder conspiracy theories posit that the playwright never truly existed, or was only an actor and not a playwright, but the consensus debate among literary scholars is over which plays might have been co-written'and who those unaccredited co-authors might be.

An MIT task force is releasing a preliminary report featuring a set of proposals aimed at steering MIT's library system toward becoming an 'open global platform? enabling the 'discovery, use, and stewardship of information and knowledge' for future generations.

The following email was sent today to the MIT community by Provost Martin Schmidt.

Leah Ceccarelli , a professor in the Department of Communication, is a rhetorical critic and theorist.

Heidi Opdyke / opdyke [at] andrew.cmu (p) edu / 412-268-7521 With stories from President Barack Obama, Gen.

The Cornell Witchcraft Collection contains documents that are hundreds of years old, including witch-hunting manuals and pamphlets and minutes from 16th - , 17th - and 18th-century European witch trials.

A new anthology of Latin American poetry is showcased at this year's Fiction Fiesta event in partnership between Cardiff University's School of English, Communication & Philosophy and Wales PEN Cymru.

The Belgrade Theatre has teamed up with the University of Warwick's Multicultural Shakespeare Project and The Coventry City of Culture Bid 2021 to present an event honouring the remarkable achievements of the African-American actor Ira Aldridge this November.

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How can we define our Gaelic culture in 2016? A culture so connected to the land and seasons, rooted in old customs and ritual, now disappearing? Is there any worth in preserving them? These are the main themes behind a special collaborative theatre performance to be staged in Glasgow on Monday.

Four generations of punk luminaries - including John Doe and Exene Cervenka, Ian MacKaye, Aaron Cometbus, Shonen Knife, Victoria Ruiz and members of Pussy Riot - will gather at Cornell Nov.

A two-day festival is being held in a Scottish Borders pub to celebrate the life and works of an 18th Century "unsung" Scottish poet Allan Ramsay.

A digital repository that provides free access to some of the most important research in the hospitality field has reached a major milestone: 1 million full-text's from users all over the world.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The cabin by the water looks just like the one that Henry David Thoreau built and lived in.

UK should ditch the rhetoric and focus on the feasible, say trade experts A hundred days after the UK voted to leave the EU, now is the time to ditch the rhetoric and start focusing on what is feasible, trade experts have said.

"The Playboy of the Western World,” by Irish playwright laureate John Millington Synge, will be the first production of the 2016-2017 season for Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama.

Latin classical, Cornell orchestras Dynamic young chamber orchestra Sphinx Virtuosi performs Sept. 30 at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall as part of the 2016-17 Cornell Concert Series.

Comics and graphic novels offering intriguing glimpses of visually arresting, sometimes amusing and often sobering stories of cultures, politics and economics around the world are on display in Doe Library's Bernice Layne Brown Gallery at UC Berkeley through March 2017.

A recent Faculty Writers? Retreat offered assistant professors Marilia Librandi-Rocha and Sarah Levine an opportunity for uninterrupted time to focus on their writing.

In the first of a new series of comment pieces written by linguists at Cambridge, Sarah Colvin,  Schröder  Professor of German and Head of the Department of German and Dutch, argues that learning languages is key to understanding how people think and plays a major role in social cohesion.

In the first of a new series of comment pieces written by linguists at Cambridge, Sarah Colvin,  Schröder  Professor of German and Head of the Department of German and Dutch, argues that learning languages is key to understanding how people think and plays a major role in social cohesion.

The School of Drama kicks off its 2016-2017 season with a mixture of old and new plays that reflect on gender politics and social systems through several distinct lenses.

Two Berkeley alumni have won MacArthur fellowships - unsolicited, no-strings-attached awards of $625,000 given to exceptionally creative people.

ANN ARBOR'Dave Camp, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 2015, has donated the collected materials from his 24 years in office to the University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library.

The Confucius Institute at Freie Universität Berlin is holding an International Day on Saturday, September 24 from 3 to 8 p.m. There will be a versatile program under the motto "Pilgrim

University - a whole new universe? Tips, important dates and services to help you have a successful start to the winter semester.

The Confucius Institute at Freie Universität Berlin is holding an International Day on Saturday, September 24 from 3 to 8 p.m. There will be a versatile program under the motto "Pilgrim

In English, declarative sentences do not usually begin with a verb. Let us suppose you are struggling in a language class, and complain about it to a friend.

In America's clap-back culture when camps are easily polarized, complex conversations get shut down before they start.

The Glasgow School of Art restoration team will be the first users of The Hunterian's new Collections Study Centre when they come to study Charles Rennie Mackintosh's original plans for The Glasgow School of Art today (September 19).

Robert Burns is revered the world over with his prolific work being a source of interest to generations of readers few authors have rivalled.

In the 19th century, father and son glassworkers Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka created a strikingly lifelike collection of glass models of marine invertebrates - figures which remain important today for their originality, detail and craftsmanship.

During the past few weeks the presidential polls have shifted from a lead for Hillary Clinton of more than 5 points to a lead of at most 1 or 2 points.

The drawing shows doctors huddled around a dying patient. The patient's head is turned slightly on a pillow.

The drawing shows doctors huddled around a dying patient. The patient's head is turned slightly on a pillow.

By Kelly Saavedra Mary Catharine Johnsen, the special collections librarian in CMU's Hunt Library, browses Shakespeare's First Folio.

Two University of Glasgow lecturers have brought to light a little-known portrait of the Rev James McLagan (1728-1805), chaplain to the Black Watch, who is the focus of a research project focused on his significant and early collection of Gaelic manuscripts, held by the University of Glasgow.

A new project led by the University of Bristol, is bringing together archaeological scientists, writers and literary scholars for the first time to uncover and create a uniquely personal perspective on what it was like to be enslaved.

Vernissage on September 7, 2016, in the Foyer of the University Library, Freie Universität Berlin: "Lives from a Global Conflict.

Vernissage on September 7, 2016, in the Foyer of the University Library, Freie Universität Berlin: "Lives from a Global Conflict.

U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) announced today that she is donating more than two decades of her congressional papers to the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley.