Remarkably few movies have taken a look at the life of the Bard. With the release of 'Hamnet,' we look back on three past ...

Though little is known about the life of William Shakespeare's only son, historians say his premature death may have shaped the bard's most famous works. This illustration shows William Shakespeare ...

William Shakespeare has written 108 shows including Romeo and Juliet (Source Material), Hamlet (Playwright), King Henry IV, Part I (Playwright), King John (Playwright), The Merchant of Venice ...

William Shakespeare wrote ‘King Lear,’ ‘Macbeth,’ and ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ as London reeled from the foiled 1605 Gunpowder Plot and a bubonic plague outbreak.

A film adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley as the Bard and his wife, imagines the lives of the Shakespeare family in fantastical and heartbreaking ...

Oscar-tipped new film Hamnet imagines the home life of William and Agnes Shakespeare – and the "soul-crushing" loss of their child. It's a powerful story that fills in many blanks. In Hamnet – Maggie ...

One is an Oscar winner, the other is an aspiring Oscar contender. But both are largely fictionalized accounts of Shakespeare's life.

Mescal, who plays the Bard in Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, says Malgosia Turzanska's slashed-leather ensembles became "an access point into his psychological landscape.” ...

Chaucer and Shakespeare lived through periods of weird weather not unlike what we are seeing today. So what can we learn from their writing?

The playwright Tom Stoppard, who penned shows including Arcadia and Travesties and the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love, died last week.

The future king said he was proud to be their colonel and thanked them for their service. Darts star Luke Humphries has received an MBE for his services to the sport. The former world number one from ...

The Prince and Princess of Wales have three children together, including the next heir to the throne - here's everything we know about Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis including ...