There is only one author to whom the TLS devotes an issue every year: William Shakespeare. Michael Caines talks us through the latest theories, research and reviews; Ian McEwan discusses his new novel, Machines Like Me

‘Still a giddy neighbour’ – Shakespeare’s parish in the 1590s, by Geoffrey Marsh, the TLS

The Bible on the Shakespearean Stage: Cultures of interpretation in Renaissance England, edited by Thomas Fulton and Kristen Poole

Believing in Shakespeare: Studies in longing, by Claire McEachern

Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama, by Lieke Stelling

What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee that made Shakespeare, by Andrew McConnell Stott

Shakespeare’s Rise to Cultural Prominence: Politics, print and alteration, 1642–1700, by Emma Depledge

Shakespeare: The theatre of our world, by Peter Conrad

Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan (Cape)

Freedom, Books, Flowers & the Moon

Episodes