Shakespeare maintained a wide-ranging interest in different forms of “natural philosophy,” which combined what we now call ...

The permanent exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library celebrates the playwright with its world-class collection of First Folios and other materials while leaving him oddly diminished.

Robert Greene, a popular writer of romances, plays, and pamphlets – with an apparent predilection for pickled herring and ...

Starting as an act at Renaissance festivals, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again] was ...

Mystery of William Shakespeare's co-writer and critic solved after 433 years In a twist worthy of a Shakespearean play, researchers have unveiled the true author behind a centuries-old critique of ...

Maybe I’m overthinking it, but to quote Shakespeare, “Teach me how to forget to think.” I can’t help but think, no one can, and I can’t help but think rather poorly of this re-telling.

Sean Holmes brings a light touch and plenty of humour to his staging of William Shakespeare’s enduringly popular tale of doomed romance, which launches the Globe’s summer season. In a ...

Read our review of Titus Andronicus the Swan Theatre: Simon Russell Beale stars in Shakespeare’s ultra-violent revenge tragedy – grim but also grotesquely funny ...

‘Ignored’ William Shakespeare letter changes view on ‘strained’ marriage Matthew Steggle, a professor of early modern English, analysed a fragment of the 17th century letter. Eric Williams ...

Some scholars have long assumed that William Shakespeare had an unhappy marriage with his wife Anne Hathaway. But fresh analysis of a 17th-century letter suggests otherwise.