Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since Shakespeare’s time, some critics and scholars have been unable to believe that a country boy from Stratford-Upon-Avon, who ...

A secret parchment has resurfaced, rewriting the Bard’s sketchy family history.

William Shakespeare is, arguably, the most influential writer in history, with lines that have been parroted both in and out of the context of his plays for centuries. “Hamnet” is a testament to the ...

Hamnet Shakespeare died in 1596, about five years before his father’s epic tragedy “Hamlet” premiered. The stage adaptation ...

Ian McKellen, who has spent his career interpreting Shakespearean protagonists from Richard III to King Lear, voiced his ...

The document suggests that Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway had more of a shared life than previously thought. Illustration of William Shakespeare leaving home, bidding farewell to his wife, ...

For centuries, William Shakespeare has existed as a monolith. We know the plays, the Sonnets, the academic arguments. What we don’t know, really, is the life: the household, the marriage, the mess.

Shakespeare’s birthday on April 23 will be marked by an extraordinary relay. Over 24 hours, 60 groups of youngsters from New Zealand to Hawaii will enact excerpts from his plays. As part of this ...

How Shakespeare Saved My Life is an autobiographical-inspired theatrical work by playwright and Broadway performer Jacob Ming-Trent (Folger Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and directed by Tony ...