It was modern forensics, a class of science the bard would likely have relished. South African anthropologist Francis Thackeray actually dug up Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon garden and had a good ...

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 ...

From the whereabouts of his skull to questions of authorship, the legendary playwright William Shakespeare attracts controversy as well as acclaim. Now, researchers have used a machine learning ...

If I can be said to have a favorite kind of column, it’s one in which I can bring to your attention an exciting literary development—one whose importance has not received the notice it deserves ...

Three paradoxes about William Shakespeare’s writing will be the focus of an address at Hope College by internationally respected Shakespeare scholar Dr. John Cox, who is a retired member of the ...

There is no end to theories about the true identity of William Shakespeare-that he is Christopher Marlowe, that he paid a drunkard named Shakespeare to use his name, that he is a conglomerate of ...