The umpteenth attempt to make Shakespeare 'cool' exchanges the original, classic language for forgettable pop songs and ...

Another big-screen take on the Bard dumbs down classic literature, prioritizes its simpleminded pop music soundtrack.

While it has long been believed that the playwright left his family in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, to go work in London, a newly recovered letter to his wife, Anne Hathaway, suggests that the couple ...

When Shakespeare penned, “Oh, what fools these mortals be,” he couldn’t ever have imagined the deliberately, delightfully ...

Curators are putting together an exhibition that aims to show people how William Shakespeare came to write his plays. The ...

A 400-year-old Shakespeare mystery has gotten a major shake-up. In a paper published in the journal Shakespeare on April 24 — the day after the Bard’s 461st birthday, if you happened to have candles ...

A new letter suggests that William Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway had more of solid marriage and shared life than ...

In 1623, seven years after William Shakespeare’s death, two of the playwright’s friends published a compilation of his works.

New research examining a fragment of a 17th century letter addressed to “good Mrs Shakspaire” suggests that William ...

Paul Workman, 74, has been a regular sight in the Bard's hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon for eight years but quit his role ...

American Coast Theater Company has announced the Orange County premiere of The Importance of Being Earnest: A Wilde New ...

When our train arrived at Stratford station, it was still early in the morning. About 150 kilometers northwest of London, in ...