On Dec. 5, 1623, a fashionable young man-about-town called Sir Edward Dering visited St. Paul’s Cross Churchyard, London’s main bookselling hub. There he bought two playbooks, a book in Latin and a ...

The Shakespeare Ladies Club worked to restore the playwright's reputation 300 years ago.

Shakespeare’s Book. By Chris Laoutaris. Pegasus Books; 560 pages; $35. William Collins; £25 The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio. By Emma Smith. Bodleian Library Publishing; 258 pages; $40 and £30 ...

In the final act of “The Tempest,” the wizardly Prospero may have drowned his book of spells. But of making books about Shakespeare there is no end. In particular, a set of questions about the ...

A 400-year-old spirit has been making its presence known. This voice from a long-gone past isn’t a Halloween haunt, though. It’s just never gone away. So is this an especially fruitful time for ...