Based on true events, Shakespeare goes slapstick with a screwball “Midsummer Night’s Dream” movie turned upside down.

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 remains one of the best-known poems on love in the English language, its steely reverence for marital commitment long making it a wedding favorite. It is not a ...

An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, its meaning might have been very different. By Amelia Nierenberg ...

Dr Leah Veronese uncovered the version of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 tucked away in a 17th Century poetry collection at the University of Oxford. The manuscript was found among the papers of ...

For as long as there have been films, there have been movies based on Shakespeare. Whether you love "The Bard" or stay haunted by high school English classes, there's no denying that Shakespeare ...

"We're working across the curriculum - so we work with art, music, poetry, we've got events with Michael Rosen," said Sally Gray, project manager at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. "We've got ...

There is also a theater/music night where scenes from Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet ... providing a sort of soundtrack to the visual art exhibit “Colorfast: The Story of Pigments ...

“The more familiar you are with Shakespeare, the more you’ve rolled it around in your mouth, the more elastic and liquid it will become on the floor, and it’s got to be a second language to you.

Art experts are divided on whether this is a genuine contemporary portrait of Shakespeare Window cleaner Steven Wadlow has spent more than a decade trying to prove he is in possession of a ...

A friend of mine once asked a young girl why she liked Shakespeare. She replied: "Because he gets to the big stuff, really quickly." I’ve often thought about what makes Shakespeare special for ...

The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, on November 28, 1582. She was eight years older than him and ...

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