Television history is littered with sub-par adaptations, but with some big name numbers coming soon – including King Lear and Hamlet – the material is still too attractive to ignore It’s generally ...

Shakespeare’s plays were written over 400 years ago, and some of the language can be unfamiliar to modern audiences. Shakespeare helped transform the English language. Many words and phrases that are ...

A high school Shakespeare unit, unsurprisingly, can lead to some hesitation for both students and teachers: The plays were ...

I bought a book for my wife yesterday at Foyles in London, which I couldn't manage to stop reading once I had started. It's a new Bill Bryson book called Shakespeare: The World as Stage and parses the ...

Several years back, an autograph dealer in Massachusetts offered to sell us a napkin purportedly signed by William Shakespeare from the Mermaid Tavern, a reputed drinking haunt of the English bard.

I’ve met Shakespeare’s ghost. The encounter was more drudgery than mystery, I’m afraid. Twenty years ago, my doctoral supervisor casually informed me that I would need to read every tragedy written in ...

New research suggests some 16th-century writers were confident Shakespeare was the pseudonym of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford Scholars often say that no one doubted Shakespeare’s authorship ...