Liam Thompson read everything Shakespeare wrote and discovered fascinating insights.

In the last days of a devastating civil war, President Abraham Lincoln's thoughts turned to passages in William Shakespeare's "Macbeth." It was his favorite Shakespeare play. In a letter to an actor, ...

Bridget Jones' star Chiwetel Ejiofor joins the creative team of the RSC musical 'The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind'.

William Shakespeare was wildly prolific. According to one estimate, his complete works add up to 884,647 words. And all these hundreds of years after his death, people still reference him and his ...

In the last days of a devastating civil war, President Abraham Lincoln's thoughts turned to passages in William Shakespeare's "Macbeth." It was his favorite Shakespeare play. In a letter to an actor, ...

A new film, adapted from Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 novel, posits that the death of Shakespeare's 11-year-old son may have inspired one of the greatest fictional tragedies ever written.

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and Foyle Foundation joined by leading actors, launched the RSC Shakespeare Curriculum, a ...

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

In a poem prefacing the 1623 First Folio, playwright Ben Jonson describes Shakespeare as “not of an age, but for all time”.

The Danish author Solvej Balle’s experimental opus reframes the tedium of contemporary life as a source of unexpected wonders ...

Sally Kirkland, a one-time model who became a regular on stage, film and TV, best known for sharing the screen with Paul ...

A ‘Secrets of the Dead’ documentary on PBS follows a man’s quest to determine whether a humble family heirloom is in fact ...