Emma Laird recalls a moment - not all that long ago - when she was stood on the rooftop of her apartment in Los Angeles, ...

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

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

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This quiz will test your knowledge of Shakespeare's most romantic words and the plays they come from.

To be sure, this theatrical adaptation of the beautiful Maggie O’Farrell novel has some stiff competition from the recent ...

Theater for a New Audience’s reimagining of the Shakespearean tragedy misses an opportunity to engage the play’s many echoes ...

WOKE university bosses have slapped trigger warnings on 30 literary classics including Shakespeare’s Richard III. Dons at the ...

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A film adaptation of a William Shakespeare play has been hailed as a "masterpiece" and stars Kate Winslet and Kenneth Branagh ...

Lancaster Shakespeare Theatre’s offerings for 2026 include an American stage classic about ordinary life and the company’s first full-scale production of one of William Shakespeare’s history plays.

Believe it or not, these romantic customs were commonly observed in Elizabethan England during the time when Shakespeare wrote his plays and poetry.