On Friday a Hollywood director skilled at blowing up stuff onscreen is set to blow up 400 years of Shakespeare scholarship with Anonymous, a $30 million period-costume drama/thriller that traduces ...

In the mid-1800s, Americans were so enthused about William Shakespeare that a rivalry between the two foremost Shakespearean actors led to a riot. Well, there's something that makes modern-day ...

This theory should never gotten off the ground, given that the two best candidates for Shakespeare’s authorship—Christopher ...

Only a few people think William Shakespeare, of Stratford-on-Avon, did not write the plays and poems on which his reputation is based. It’s a small fraternity of like-minded researchers, who comb the ...

No one did it like The Bard, so it's no surprise that some myths about him and his writing have seeped into our culture over ...

The notion that William Shakespeare did not write some or all of the plays attributed to him has been a constant debate for centuries, triggering numerous essays, films, TV series and plays. In ...

The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship is now accepting entries for its fourth annual “Who Wrote Shakespeare?” Video Contest. Entries will be accepted from contestants across the U.S., and eight different ...

Did William Shakespeare have the smarts to be a literary giant? If indeed he was a superstar in his time, why did his death go virtually unnoticed? Is it possible for someone so literate to have ...

I love Shakespeare so much that I can never understand why people want to make a religion of him. When you love someone, deeply and persistently, you don’t want to pretend your love is perfection and ...