Four centuries have passed since William Shakespeare inked his mind into plays and poetry, yet the echo of his writing continues to pulse through the conversations and thoughts of today. The Bard of Avon didn’t just author plays and sonnets; he crafted a timeless world for generations to float through when seeking inspiration and self-reflection.The…
If Noam Chomsky is the Devil’s Accountant, then Sigmund Freud is the Architect of Dreams. Not the whimsical kind involving rainbows and flying cows, but the kind where you’re chasing your mother through a dark hallway while holding a cigar. And yes, it is just a cigar. Or is it?Explaining Freud is like trying to…
Any clue about William Shakespeare’s life usually excites scholars, but one piece of evidence had been neglected for decades. Now, a new analysis of that overlooked document seems to shatter a longstanding narrative about the Bard’s bad marriage. Shakespeare was 18 in 1582 when he married Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a family friend in…
The hottest play on Broadway was written more than 400 years ago. Demand to see Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal face off in Shakespeare’s “Othello” is so strong that many center orchestra seats are selling for $921, helping the show break box office records. During its first week of previews, its average ticket price was…
Science doesn’t usually tolerate frivolity, but the infinite monkey theorem enjoys an exception. The question it poses is thoroughly outlandish: Could an infinite number of monkeys, each given an infinite amount of time to peck away at a typewriter (stocked with an infinite supply of paper, presumably) eventually produce, by pure chance, the complete works…