Bookish Diversions: Why Read Shakespeare?

The Bard’s Home, First Folio, Universal Appeal, Teaching Students, but Shakespeare Wasn’t Even Shakespeare, Right?

“When I was at home, I was in a better place” (As You Like It 2.4). A recently discovered seventeenth-century document pinpoints the location of Shakespeare’s London home. Originally part of Blackfriars, a thirteenth-century Dominican monastery, Shakespeare purchased the digs in March 1613, a few years before his 1616 death.

The address placed him a qui…