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For more than 400 years the works of William Shakespeare have inspired and entertained us. You can't make a list like this ...
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 ...
The umpteenth attempt to make Shakespeare 'cool' exchanges the original, classic language for forgettable pop songs and ...
A new letter suggests that William Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway had more of solid marriage and shared life than ...
Performers have been rehearsing for a show which combines William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream with wrestling.
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 ...
Curators are putting together an exhibition that aims to show people how William Shakespeare came to write his plays. The ...
Another big-screen take on the Bard dumbs down classic literature, prioritizes its simpleminded pop music soundtrack.
In the 17th century, the Bard's plays were preserved for posterity in the First, Second, Third and Fourth Folios. Now, all ...
Paul Workman, 74, has been a regular sight in the Bard's hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon for eight years but quit his role ...
When Shakespeare penned, “Oh, what fools these mortals be,” he couldn’t ever have imagined the deliberately, delightfully ...
Writer and director Timothy Scott Bogart puts a fresh twist on 'Romeo and Juliet' by turning it into a period-set pop musical. Read more about it here.