A nonprofit that oversees museums commemorating William Shakespeare's life is purportedly working to "decolonize" his legacy ...

You don't get this much swagger by holding back your insults. Image via Wikipedia. William Shakespeare gave the English ...

In its pledge to ‘decolonize’ the Bard’s legacy, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has forsaken its historical mission in ...

By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting, and romancing, in London If you have already had the good fortune of encountering “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare, you were probably at a wedding.

Shakespeare was a social entrepreneur and entertainer in a world riven by crises, and much can be learned from bringing him ...

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 ...

But it's hard ranking all the greatest Shakespeare movies. To think about it – o, full of scorpions is my mind! Beginning with the four-minute silent movie King John in 1899, William Shakespeare ...

Excavations at a necropolis outside of Liternum, near modern-day Naples, have found two ornate funerary enclosures.

Edward de Vere’s life — as are his plays — was extremely complicated. Like many of his characters, he was impetuous and often ...

PROVIDENCE — While translating William Shakespeare’s works into a variety of languages is nothing new, the unique, au courant bilingual adaptation of “The Tempest,” being performed by ...

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 ...

Shakespeare’s parents had been Catholics, and the tension between the new and old religions can be seen in much of his work. William’s father, John Shakespeare, was a member of the borough ...