The 2018 film, All is True, starring Kenneth Branagh as William Shakespeare and Ian McKellen as Shakespeare’s patron, the Earl of Southampton, purports to be a depiction of the Bard’s final years in ...

In the final act of “The Tempest,” the wizardly Prospero may have drowned his book of spells. But of making books about Shakespeare there is no end. In particular, a set of questions about the ...

Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel Hamnet took on one of the greatest giants of all, William Shakespeare, and successfully ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Since Shakespeare’s time, some critics and scholars have been unable to believe that a country boy from ...

I never cared much for Shakespeare so I had no reason to care about his true identity. I knew that people questioned it, but I presumed this was a kooky conspiracy theory. Then a chance comment opened ...

Inscribed on the grand neoclassical façade of the Folger Shakespeare Library is the famed tribute to the playwright by his contemporary, Ben Jonson: “Thou art a monument, without a tombe, / And art ...

Celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, which saved 18 plays from being lost. Tracing the First Folio’s story, the film also spotlights how New York City’s Public Theater ...

To many, William Shakespeare is considered the greatest dramatist of all time. His works—at least 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 narrative poems—capture the range of human emotion and conflict and have ...

Was William Shakespeare, the most famous playwright of all-time, actually a faithful Jew? At first glance the question seems preposterous. Shakespeare is the author of one of the most famous ...